Identifier: dictionariumpoly00barr (find matches)
Title: Dictionarium polygraphicum, or, The whole body of arts regularly digested ... : illustrated with fifty-six copper plates
Year: 1758 (1750s)
Authors: Barrow, John, teacher of mathematics Toms, W. H. (William Henry), ca. 1700-ca. 1750 Devoto, John, fl. 1719-1752 Hitch, Charles, d. 1764 Hawes, Lacy
Subjects: Arts Industrial arts
Publisher: London : Printed for C. Hitch and L. Hawes, in Pater-noster-Row : J. Hinton, in Newgate-Street : and L. Davis and C. Reymers, against Gray's Inn
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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S T U 297 to the point of diftance; as here from BCD E and F, plate XX.fig. I. The firft angle of each houfe may ferve for a line of elevation,as the angle G in the firft houfe. If you require any crofs ftreets, one, two, or three fquaresare to be left vacant, and nothing upon them, as here at H and I. Pig. 2, is to fhew, that, wherehoufes are to be made to ad-vance or fall back, you have only to put their elevations for-warder or backwarder on the plan of their Ajuares. Thus L advances a fquare farther than K, and M farther thanL> and fo of the reft. STRENGTH, is reprefented, in painting, &c. by a womaaIn armour, her ftature upright, big-boned, plump breafts, harftihair, fparkling eyes, a fpear in her hand, with an oak-branch, a(hield on her arm with a lion and a wild boar.—All thefe denoteStrength; the oak-branch and armour (hew Strength of bodyand mind; the fpear denotes fuperiority procured by Strength ;the lion and boar the Strength of body and mind, the one aflingwith m

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