 | Philip Luckombe - 1771 - 534 páginas
...probable if it be confidered, that the progreftion of the Roman numbers is from five to five, that is, from the fingers of one hand to the fingers of the other. . Ovid has touched upon the original of this in his Feftorum, lib. iii. and Vitruv. lib. iii. ci has... | |
 | Thomas F. Adams - 1857 - 300 páginas
...probable, if it be considered that the progression of the Roman numbers is from five to five, that is, from the fingers of one hand to the fingers of the other. Ovid has touched upon the original of this in his Featornm, lib. iii. and J'itruv. lib. iii. c. 1.... | |
 | Thomas MacKellar - 1866 - 354 páginas
...probable if it be considered that the progression of the Roman numbers is from five to five, — that is, from the fingers of one hand to the fingers of the other. After they had made this acute angle, V, for five, they then added single strokes to the number of... | |
 | Thomas MacKellar - 1870 - 356 páginas
...probable if it be considered that the progression of the Roman numbers is from five to five, — that is, from the fingers of one hand to the fingers of the other. After they had made this acute angle, V, for five, they then added single strokes to the number of... | |
 | Denise Brown - 2006 - 140 páginas
...are you sure? They leave me alone, and I kiss him everywhere, from the top of his head to his toes, from the fingers of one hand to the fingers of the other, a game we played, not often enough. Our I love you in kisses, from here to there, everywhere, one last... | |
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... be necessary to number the strokes one by one; for this reason, when they came to five, they expressed it by joining two strokes together in an acute angle, thus V, which will appear the more probable, if it be considered that the progression of the... 