 | English essays - 1826 - 722 pages
...Dauphin's, with a piece of paper and a common pen, he demonstrated that a piece of vellum about tea inches in length, and eight in width, pliant and firm, can be folded up and enclosed in the shell of a large walnut ; that in breadth it can contain one Ime of thirty verses,... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Anecdotes - 1807 - 538 pages
...considered as a fiction the story of that industrious writer, who is said to have inclosed the Iliad in a nutshell. But having examined the matter more...and eight in width, pliant and firm, can be folded up and inclosed in the shell of a large walnut. It can hold in its breadth one line, which can contain... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1823 - 314 pages
...considered as a fiction the story of that industrious writer who is said to have enclosed the Iliad in a nutshell. But having examined the matter more...and eight in width, pliant and firm, can be folded up and enclosed in the shell of a large walnut. It can hold in its breadth one line, which can contain... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Culture in literature - 1824 - 538 pages
...considered as a fiction the story of that industrious writer who is said to have enclosed the Iliad in a nutshell. But having examined the matter more...this learned man trifled half an hour in proving it. Apiece of vellum, about ten inches in length and eight in width, pliant and firm, can be folded up... | |
 | William Hone - 1825 - 842 pages
...One day, in company at the dauphin's, with a piece of paper and a common pen, he demonstrated, that iam Tegg up and enclosed in the shell of a large walnut ; that in breadth it can contain one line of thirty... | |
 | William Hone - 1826 - 882 pages
...One day, in company at the dauphin's, with a piece of paper and a common pen, he demonstrated, that a piece of vellum, about ten inches in length, and eight in width, pliant and firm, can be folded up and enclosed in the shell of a large walnut , thai in breadth it can contain one line of thirty... | |
 | William Hone - Calendars - 1868 - 846 pages
...One day, in com.pany at the dauphin's, with a piece of paper and a common pen, he demonstrated, that a piece of vellum, about ten inches in length, and eight in width, pliant and firm, can be folded up and enclosed in the shell of a large walnut ( that in breadth it can contain one line of thirty... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1826 - 738 pages
...>ne day in company at the Dauphin's, with a piece of paper and • common pen, he demonstrated that a piece of vellum about ten inches in length, and eight in width, pliant and firm, can be folded up and enclosed in the shell of a large walnut ; that in breadth it can contain one line of thirty... | |
 | William Hone - Days - 1830 - 878 pages
...One day, in company at the dauphin's, with a piece of paper and a common pen, he demonstrated, that a piece of vellum, about ten inches in length, and eight in width, pliant and firm, can be folded up and enclosed in the shell of a large walnut ; that in breadth it can contain one line of thirty... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1834 - 344 pages
...more closely, he thought it possible. One day this learned man trifled half an hour in demonstrating it. A piece of vellum, about ten inches in length and eight in width, pliant and firm, can be folded up, and enclosed in the shell of a large walnut. It can hold in its breadth one line, which can contain... | |
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Dauphin's, this learned man trifled half an hour in proving it. A piece of vellum, about ten inches in length and eight in width, pliant and firm, can be folded up and enclosed in the shell of a large walnut. It can hold in its breadth one line, which... 
