The invention of printing

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F. Hart & Company, 1877 - 557 pagina's
 

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Pagina 467 - And he, stooping down, and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying ; yet went he not in. Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes lie...
Pagina 216 - Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth : for thy love is better than wine.
Pagina 176 - ... and there are many of our craft of brewers who have the knowledge of writing and reading in the said English idiom, but in others, to wit, the Latin and French, before these times used, they do not in any wise understand...
Pagina 89 - ... which are made out of Venice; to which evil it is necessary to apply some remedy; in order that the said artists, who are a great many in family, may find encouragement, rather than foreigners. Let it be ordered and established, according to that which the said masters have supplicated, that from this time in future, no work of the said art, that is printed or painted on cloth, or on paper, that is to say altar pieces (or images) and playing...
Pagina 216 - I AM black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards ; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.
Pagina 542 - Idée générale d'une collection complette d'estampes. Avec une dissertation sur l'origine de la gravure et sur les premiers livres d'images, Leipzig, 1771.
Pagina 148 - Manuscripts has, indeed, brought out the singular fact, at a period when the Fine Arts may be said to have been almost extinct in Italy and other parts of the Continent — namely, from the fifth to the end of the eighth century — a style of art had been...
Pagina 89 - Venice, has fallen to total decay; and this in consequence of the great quantity of playing-cards, and coloured figures printed, which are made out of Venice; to which evil it is necessary to apply some remedy; in order that the said artists, who are a great many in family, may find encouragement, rather than foreigners.
Pagina 522 - When the compositors were educated, the method of dictation may have been practised with some success; when they were ignorant, it was sure to produce many errors.
Pagina 313 - German nation that such ingenious men are found among them. And it took place about the year of our Lord 1440, and from this time until the year 1450 the art, and what is connected with it, was being investigated. And in the year of our Lord 1450 it was a golden year (Jubilee), and they began to print, and the first book they printed was the Bible, in Latin.

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