 L. the public tooth drawers; and yet these rascally operators of the press have got a trick to fasten them again in a few minutes, that they grow as firm a set, and as biting and talkative as ever.  Knight's Penny Magazine - Page 2061846Full view - About this book
 | Scottish periodicals - 1832 - 952 pages
...ever. O, printing! how hast thon disturbed the face of mankind! that lead, when moulded into ¿ц/fe/s, is not so mortal as when formed into letters ! There was a mistake, sure, in the story of Cadmu» ; and the serpent's teeth which he sowed, were nothing else but the letters which he invented.... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - Biography - 1833 - 764 pages
...them again in a few minutes, that they grow as firm a set, and as biting and talkative, as ever. O, printing ! how hast thou disturbed the peace of mankind...as when formed into letters ! There was a mistake, siu-c, in the story of Cadmus ; and the serpent's teeth which he sowed were nothing else but the letters... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1835 - 78 pages
...them again in a few minutes, that they grow as firm a set, and as biting and talkative, as ever. O, printing ! how hast thou disturbed the peace of mankind...a mistake, sure, in the story of Cadmus ; and the serpent's teeth which he sowed, were nothing else but the letters which he invented. The first essay... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 246 pages
...them again in a few minutes, that they grow as firm a set, and as biting and talkative, as ever. O, printing ! how hast thou disturbed the peace of mankind...were nothing else but the letters which he invented. The first essay that was made towards this art, was in single characters upon iron, wherewith, of old,... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - Lancashire (England) - 1836 - 774 pages
...them again in a few minutes, that they grow as firm a set, and as biting and talkative, as ever. O, printing ! how hast thou disturbed the peace of mankind...a mistake, sure, in the story of Cadmus ; and the serpent's teeth which he sowed were nothing else but the letters which he invented. The first essay... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 494 pages
...them again in a few minutes, that they grow as firm a set, and as biting and talkative, as ever. O, printing ! how hast thou disturbed the peace of mankind...bullets, is not so mortal as when formed into letters I There was a mistake, sure, in the story of Cadmus ; and the serpents' teeth which he sowed were nothing... | |
 | 1838 - 1050 pages
...minutes, that they grow aa firm a set, and as biting and talkative as ever. O, printing ! !•>•<•.• hast thou disturbed the peace of mankind : That lead, when moulded into bullets, is not BO mortal as when formed into letters 1 There was a mistake, sure, in the story of Cadmus ; and the... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 600 pages
...disturbed the peace ol mankind ? Lead, when moulded into bullets, is not so mortal as when founded into letters. There was a mistake, sure, in the story of Cadmus; and the serpent's teeth which he sowed, were nothing else but the letters which he invented.' Parker having... | |
 | James Caughey - Methodist Church - 1845 - 336 pages
...them again in a few minutes, that they grow as firm a set, and as biting and talkative as ever. O, printing ! how hast thou disturbed the peace of mankind...were nothing else but the letters which he invented. The first essay that was made towards this art was in single characters upon iron, wherewith, of old,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1845 - 570 pages
...in a few minutes, that they grow as firm a set, and as biting and talkative as ever. O, printing1! how hast thou disturbed the peace of mankind ! —...a mistake, sure, in the story of Cadmus ; and the serpent's teeth which he sowed were nothing else but the letters which he invented." Besides much more... | |
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