Dictionarium polygraphicum, or, The whole body of arts regularly digested ..: illustrated with fifty-six copper plates . pfichords, manichords, Szc. The pin-makers likewife ufe vaft quantities of Wire, to maketheir pins of. Iron Wire is drawn of various fizes, from half an inch to onetenth of an inch diameter. The firil: iron that runs from the ftone when melting, beingthe fofteft and tougheil, is preferved to make Wire of. WISDOM, is reprefented, in painting, cloathed in a bluemantle, fcedcd with ftars. Human Wisdom, is reprefented, in painting, by a youth withfour hands and four ears, a quiv
Dictionarium polygraphicum, or, The whole body of arts regularly digested ..: illustrated with fifty-six copper plates . pfichords, manichords, Szc. The pin-makers likewife ufe vaft quantities of Wire, to maketheir pins of. Iron Wire is drawn of various fizes, from half an inch to onetenth of an inch diameter. The firil: iron that runs from the ftone when melting, beingthe fofteft and tougheil, is preferved to make Wire of. WISDOM, is reprefented, in painting, cloathed in a bluemantle, fcedcd with ftars. Human Wisdom, is reprefented, in painting, by a youth withfour hands and four ears, a quiver by his fide, a recorder in hisright hand, and a lyre in the other ; facred to Apollo.—Thehands denote ufe and prai^lice, neceflary to get Wifdom, bcfidescontemplation; the ears, that to hear others isrequifite; theflute and quiver, that one (hould not be too much taken withencomiums of ones felf, nor unprovided in cafe of offence. If^illiam WISSINCr, was a face painter, bred up under Do-daens, a hiflory painter at the Hague ; upon his coming over toEngland, he worked fome time for Sir Ptter Lely, whofe man-ner. (^ f 7 fc. J ]
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