Nichols, John Gough, 1806-1873 · London : John Bowyer Nichols and Sons · leaf 57
ny, God is OUR strength,is of comparatively modern adoption ; anciently, and for aconsiderable period, they used the words Assher Dure,which may be interpreted in modern orthography, acier dur, ap-parently in allusion to the three gads of steel which form theprincipal charges of the arms. For the… … THE ACCEDENS OF ARMORY,By Gerard Legh, 1562. It is not as a model of perspicuity or judgment, viewed as an Accedens or grammar of Armory, that we take the work ofGerard Legh for the subject of our first Retrospective Review. Onthe contrary, We will at once say that it is admirable neither forone…
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