 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
 | 1845 - 952 pages
...ink and elbow-grease, do more harm than a hundred systematical divines with their sweaty preaching. O Printing ! how hast thou disturbed the peace of mankind...when moulded into bullets, is not so mortal as when founded into letters !" In this fine strain of irony did Andrew Marvel treat the inestimable worth... | |
 | 1846 - 324 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." Besides much more... | |
 | 1846 - 396 pages
...as biting and talkative as ever. O, printing! how hast thou disturbed the peace of mankind!—that lead when moulded into bullets is not so mortal as...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." Besides much more... | |
 | Christopher Thomson - Artisans - 1847 - 432 pages
...them again in a few minutes, that they grow as firm a set, and as biting and talkative as ever. Oh, Printing! how hast thou disturbed the peace of mankind...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." From childhood... | |
 | Henry Rogers - English essays - 1850 - 542 pages
...disturbed the peace of mankind ? Lead, when moulded into bullets, is not so mortal as when founded into letters. There was a mistake, sure, in the story...were nothing else but the letters which he invented.' Parker having declared, in relation to some object of his scurrility, that he had written, ' not to... | |
 | Henry Rogers - Faith and reason - 1853 - 470 pages
...disturbed the 7* peace of mankind ! Lead, when moulded into bullets, is not so mortal as when founded into letters. There was a mistake, sure, in the story...were nothing else but the letters which he invented." Parker having declared, in relation to some object of his scurrility, that he had written, " not to... | |
 | Henry Rogers - Faith and reason - 1853 - 478 pages
...disturbed the 7* peace of mankind! Lead, when moulded into bullets, is not so mortal as when founded into letters. There was a mistake, sure, in the story...were nothing else but the letters which he invented." Parker having declared, in relation to some object of his scurrility, that he had written, " not to... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1853 - 538 pages
...in a few minutes, that they grow as firm a set, and as biting and talkative, as ever. O, printing I how hast thou disturbed the peace of mankind ! —...when moulded into bullets, is not so mortal as when foi med into letters I There was a mistake, sure, in the story of Cadmus ; and the serpents' teeth... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...fasten 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 ! That lead, when moulded into bullels, is not so mortal, as when founded into letters. There was a mistake, sure, in the story of... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...fasten 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!...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... | |
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