A Dictionary of Printers and Printing: With the Progress of Literature; Ancient and ModernH. Johnson, 1839 - 996 pagini |
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Pagina 4
... writing is illegible , the spelling incorrect , or the punctuation defective . The compositor has often to read sentences of his copy more than once before he can ascertain what he conceives the meaning of the author , that he may not ...
... writing is illegible , the spelling incorrect , or the punctuation defective . The compositor has often to read sentences of his copy more than once before he can ascertain what he conceives the meaning of the author , that he may not ...
Pagina 63
... writing , and fitted for ladies and beaux - candidates for fair places donative , bo court a plattin to save unnecessary trouble , and to conceal their management of a pa . " Though great improvements have been made in script types ...
... writing , and fitted for ladies and beaux - candidates for fair places donative , bo court a plattin to save unnecessary trouble , and to conceal their management of a pa . " Though great improvements have been made in script types ...
Pagina 67
... writing , and reckon the number of words contained in one line , previously counting a number of separate lines , so that the one adopted may be a fair average ; then take the number of lines in a page , and multiply the one by the ...
... writing , and reckon the number of words contained in one line , previously counting a number of separate lines , so that the one adopted may be a fair average ; then take the number of lines in a page , and multiply the one by the ...
Pagina 2
... writers , who consider language as one of the arts invented by man . Amongst the moderns , Astle , in his celebrated work on the Origin and Progress of Writing , ranks foremost , for his elaborate defence of the human invention of ...
... writers , who consider language as one of the arts invented by man . Amongst the moderns , Astle , in his celebrated work on the Origin and Progress of Writing , ranks foremost , for his elaborate defence of the human invention of ...
Pagina 6
... writing is , beyond doubt , the most useful art which man possesses , Writing is plainly an improvement upon speech , and therefore , must have been posterior to it in order of time . Mankind , at first , thought of nothing more than by ...
... writing is , beyond doubt , the most useful art which man possesses , Writing is plainly an improvement upon speech , and therefore , must have been posterior to it in order of time . Mankind , at first , thought of nothing more than by ...
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