[8] Sacy’s Chrestomathie Arabe, Paris, 1827, iii. 68.
[9] Cod. MS. phil. 63, in the library of the University of Göttingen, quoted by Romocki, i. 134.
[10] Froissart’s original account of the battle of Cressy in the Amiens MS. will be found in Kervyn de Lettenhove’s ed. of the “Chronicles,” Brussels, 1870, and in the Appendix to Polain’s ed. of the Vrayes Chroniques de Messire Jehan le Bel, Brussels, 1863. See also “Cannon at Cressy,” by the present writer, in Proc. R. A. Inst., vol. xxvi.
[11] “Toxophilus,” p. 67.
[12] “Sometimes we put a new signification to an old word, as when we call a Piece a Gun. The word Gun was in use in England for an Engine to cast a thing from a Man, long before there was any Gunpowder found out.”—“Table Talk,” p. 107.
[13] “Language and the Study of Language,” 1867, p. 126.
[14] Cordite, for instance, is frequently miscalled “smokeless powder.”
[15] As Artillery for ages represented both bows and cannon.
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