The great art of artillery, tr. from the Fr. by G. Shelvocke

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Page 253 - Cloelia for their guide. High on a rock heroic Manlius stood, To guard the temple, and the temple's god. Then Rome was poor; and there you might behold The palace thatch'd with straw, now roof'd with gold. The silver goose before the shining gate There flew, and, by her cackle, sav'd the state. She told the Gauls' approach; th' approaching Gauls, Obscure in night, ascend, and seize the walls.
Page 396 - Which roar'd like thunder as it whirl'd along : Not two bull-hides th' impetuous force withhold, Nor coat of double mail, with scales of gold. Down sunk the...
Page 257 - ... the angle of reflection is always equal to the angle of incidence, the image for any point can be seen only in the reflected ray prolonged.
Page 362 - Where (fleeping in a cave) Silenus lay, Whofe conftant cups fly fuming to his brain, And always boil in each extended vein ; His trufty flaggon, full of potent juice, Was hanging by, worn thin with age and ufe ; Drop'd from his head, a wreath lay on the ground ; In hafte they...
Page 358 - Thou, Bacchus, god of joys and friendly cheer, And gracious Juno, both be present here ! And you, my lords of Tyre, your vows address To heav'n with mine, to ratify the peace.
Page 54 - That other loads the trees with happy fruits; A fourth with grafs, unbidden, decks the ground: Thus Tmolus is with yellow faffron crown'd} India, black ebon and white ivory bears ; 8 J And foft Idume weeps her odorous tears.
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Page 340 - Dire faces, and deform'd, furround the car; Friends of the god, and followers of the war. With fury not unlike, nor lefs difdain...
Page 305 - engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and on the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal,
Page x - Probabi" lity was not long difcovered when the Inventor (as Polydore Virgil tells us ) taught the Ufe of Guns to the Venetians at the Battle of Foffa Claudia, when they obtained that notable Victory over the Genoefe...

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