Typographia, Or The Printers' Instructor: Including an Account of the Origin of Printing, with Biographical Notices of the Printers of England, from Caxton to the Close of the Sixteenth Century: a Series of Ancient and Modern Alphabets, and Domesday Characters: Together with an Elucidation of Every Subject Connected with the Art. 2 Vol. Il. Por. Nar. D.

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Messrs. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, ... London., 1824

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Página 605 - England, with the introduction of printing, the illiterate and terrified monks declaimed from their pulpits, that there was now a new language discovered, called Greek, of which people should beware, since it was that which produced all the heresies; that in this language was come forth a book called the New Testament, which was now in every body's hands, and was full of thorns and briars ; that there was also another language now started up, which they called Hebrew, and that they who learned it...
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Página 131 - ... he used two-line letters of a Gothic kind. As he printed long before the present method was adopted of adding an Errata at the end of a book, to supply this deficiency, his extraordinary exactness induced him to have recourse to a most laborious task, namely, that of revising every page (after the book was printed,) and marking the corrections with red ink : one copy being thus perfected, he then employed a careful person to go through the whole impression, and correct the faults.
Página 605 - Greek, of which people should beware, since it was that which produced all the heresies: lhat in this language was come forth a book called the New Testament, which was now in everybody's hands, and was full of thorns and briers: that there was also another language now started up, which they called Hebrew, and that they who learned it were termed Hebrews. One of the priests declared, with a most prophetic wisdom, " We must root out printing, or printing will root out us...
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