 | 1802 - 888 trang
...the night had made his fusil rusty, and that he was scraping it. The prince, on examining, was struck with something like a figure eaten into the barrel,...with innumerable little holes, closed together like friczed friezed work on gold and silver, part of which the soldier had scraped away. The prince concluded... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - 538 trang
...made his fusil rusty, and that he was scraping and cleaning it. The prince looking at it, was struck with something like a figure eaten into the barrel, with innumerable little boles closed together like friezed work on gold or silver, part of which the fellow had scraped .away.... | |
 | 1816 - 536 trang
...made his fusil rusty, and that he was scraping-and cleaning it. The prince looking at it, was struck with something like a figure eaten into the barrel, with innumerable little boles closed together like friezed work On gold or silver, part of which the fellow had scraped away.... | |
 | 1828 - 442 trang
...cleaning it. The Prince looking at it, was struck with something like a figure eaten into the barril, with innumerable little holes closed together, like...silver, part of which the fellow had scraped away. One knows what a meer good officer would In fact, he did not invent the art, but what he had learned... | |
 | John Gould - 1835 - 444 trang
...like frize-work on gold and silver, part of which the soldier had scraped away. The prince concluded that some contrivance might be found to cover a brass plate with such a grained ground of fine pressed holes, which would undoubtedly give an impression all black, and that by scraping away proper... | |
 | John Gould - 1838 - 442 trang
...like frize-work on gold and silver, part of which the soldier had scraped away. The prince concluded that some contrivance might be found to cover a brass plate with such a grained ground of fine pressed holes, which would undoubtedly give an impression all black, and that by scraping away proper... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1839 - 536 trang
...on the piece, which he was trying to scrape and polish away. On examining it, the prince perceived something like a figure eaten into the barrel, with innumerable little holes close together like the chased work on gold and silver, part of which the man had already scraped away.... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1839 - 572 trang
...on the piece, which he was trying to scrape and polish away. On examining it, the prince perceived something like a figure eaten into the barrel, with innumerable little holes close together like the chased work on gold and silver, part of which the man had already scraped away.... | |
 | James Maidment - 1845 - 548 trang
...was first suggested to the Prince by observing a soldier scraping a rusty fusil, " when he was struck with something like a figure eaten into the barrel,...friezed work on gold or silver, part of which the soldier had scraped away. From this trifling incident Prince Rupert is said to have conceived mezzotinto."... | |
 | James Maidment - 1845 - 558 trang
...first suggested to the Prince by observing a soldier scraping a rusty fusil, " when lie was struck with something like a figure eaten into the barrel,...with innumerable little holes closed together like friezcd work on gold or silver, part of which the soldier had scraped away. From this trifling incident... | |
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He replied that the dew had fallen in the night and made his fusil rusty, and that he was scraping and cleaning it. The Prince, looking at it, was struck with something like a figure eaten into the barrel, with innumerable little holes closed together... 
