| 1819 - 492 pages
...family, selected on, purpose, advances to a seat near the lamp, and commences the evening lecture, which generally consists of some old saga, or such other histories as are to be obtained on the is. land. Being but badly supplied with printed books, the Icelanders are under the necessity of copying... | |
| Ebenezer Henderson - 1818 - 492 pages
...the family, selected on purpose, advances to a seat near the lamp, and commences the evening lecture, which generally consists of some old saga, or such...write a hand equal in beauty to that of the ablest writing-masters in other parts of Europe. Some specimens of their Gothic writing is scarcely inferior... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1818 - 596 pages
...the family, selected on purpose, advances to a seat near the lamp, and commences the evening lecture, which generally consists of some old saga, or such...supplied with printed books, the Icelanders are under ' A winter-evening in an Icelandic family presents a scene in the highest degree interesting and pleasing.... | |
| Ebenezer Henderson - 1819 - 634 pages
...the family, selected on purpose, advances to a seat near the lamp, and commences the evening lecture, which generally consists of some old saga, or such...write a hand equal in beauty to that of the ablest writing-masters in other parts of Europe. Some specimens of their Gothic writing is scarcely inferior... | |
| 492 pages
...the family, selected on purpose, advances to a seat near the lamp, and commences the evening lecture, which generally consists of some old saga, or such...histories as are to be obtained on the Island. Being badly supplied with printed books, the Icelanders are under the necessity of copying such as they can... | |
| Abigail F. Mott - 1827 - 144 pages
...composition of the Icelanders, or suth other histories as are to be had on the Island. * Being poorly supplied with printed books, the Icelanders are under...hand equal in beauty to that of the ablest writing master in other parts of Europe. Some specimens of their Gothic writing is scarcely inferior to copperplate.... | |
| Bela Bates Edwards - 1832 - 338 pages
...family, selected on purpose, advances to a 'seat near the lamp, and commences the evening lecture, which generally consists of some old saga, or such...write a hand equal in beauty to that of the ablest writing-masters in other parts of Europe. Some specimens of their Gothic writing are scarcely inferior... | |
| 1833 - 574 pages
...279. VOL. xxxvii. — No. 81. 46 vances to a seat near the lamp, and commences the evening lecture, which generally consists of some old Saga or such...other histories, as are to be obtained on the island. In some houses the Sagas are repeated by such as have got them by heart ; and instances are not uncommon... | |
| Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1836 - 588 pages
...generally known. Their usual evening reading during the long nights of their almost everlasting winters, consists of some old Saga, or such other histories as are to be obtained on their island. Dr. Henderson in his valuable work on Iceland, (page 357,) gives a most delightful description... | |
| Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1836 - 588 pages
...printed books, they are under the necessity of copying such as they can obtain the loan of; and thus most of them write a hand, equal in beauty to that of the ablest writing-masters in Europe. In some houses, the xa^as are repeated by such as have got them by rote... | |
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