The Bibliographical Miscellany: Or, Supplement to the Bibliographical Dictionary, Volume 2

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Pagina 73 - Typographical antiquities ; or, the history of printing in England, Scotland and Ireland. Containing memoirs of our ancient printers, and a register of the books printed by them. Begun by the late Joseph Ames, FR & A. SS. considerably augmented by William Herbert, of Cheshunt, Herts...
Pagina 5 - In like manner, Shem connected Noah and Abraham, having lived to converse with both ; as Isaac did with Abraham and Joseph, from whom these things might be easily conveyed to Moses by Amram, who was contemporary with Joseph. Supposing, then, all the curious facts recorded in the book of Genesis...
Pagina 74 - Account of the Invention of the Art at Harlem and its progress to Mentz. — With an Appendix. No. 1. On the first printed Greek books. No. 2. On the first printed Hebrew books. No. 3.
Pagina 5 - Divine inspiration left out of the question) to be satisfied of the truth of all he relates in the book of Genesis, as the accounts came to him through the medium of very few persons. .', From Adam to Noah there was but one man necessary to the correct transmission of the history of this period of 1656 years. Now this history was, without doubt, perfectly known to Methuselah, who lived to see them both. In like manner, Shem connected Noah and Abraham, having lived to converse with both ; as Isaac...
Pagina 5 - ... to pass through very few hands, and all these friends and relatives in the most proper sense of the terms ; for they lived in an insulated state, under a patriarchal government. Thus it was easy for Moses to be satisfied of the truth of all he relates in the Book of Genesis, as the accounts came to him through the medium of very few persons. From Adam to Noah there was but one man necessary to the transmission...
Pagina 130 - Cologne, 1471, and a perfect resemblance found between them in the manner of printing, not only the page itself, but the number of lines in a page, the length, breadth, and the intervals between the lines alike.
Pagina 52 - This is an Historicocritico-chronological Nomenclature, of the most illustrious authors and monuments from the beginning of the world to the present time ; with an account of the sources whence the author has derived his information. A very useful and laborious work, susceptible, however, of corrections and additions.
Pagina 4 - In the antediluvian world, when the life of man was so protracted, there was, comparatively, little need for writing. Tradition answered every purpose to which writing in any kind of characters could be subservient ; and the necessity of erecting monuments to perpetuate public events could scarcely have suggested itself; as...
Pagina 2 - Fitruvius, and after them some modern writers of considerable eminence, have asserted, " that men at first lived like beasts in woods and caves, forming only strange and uncouth noises, until their fears caused them to associate together ; and that upon growing acquainted with each other, they came to correspond about things, first by signs, then to make names for them, and in time, to frame and perfect a language...
Pagina 6 - As there is no evidence whatever, that there was any WRITING before the giving of the law ; and as then, God is said to have written the Decalogue •with his own finger ; and, as after this time, writing is always mentioned, when a suitable occasion offers ; I conclude, that God himself first taught the use of alphabetical characters to man.

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