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actual thing Andrew Wilson appliances for printers art of printing brain was occupied called the Stanhope cash to Lord Charles Earl Stanhope Earl Stanhope jotted encouraged the invention fee or reward foreman and factotum halftone hard cash improvement of numerous including the Universities innumerable other schemes inventions and improvements iron handpress called iron presses later the Stanhope LEADED LORD STANHOPE logotypes and logotype LORD STANHOPE Charles Lord Stanhope's fertile Lord Stanhope's foreman much-valued and so-called N. W. Wraxall writes nobleman offered numerous appliances Oxford and Cambridge Oxford paid Oxford Press Oxford University Press paid the sum placed those inventions practised the art Press at Oxford presses were purchased printing-house records show relate to printing second invention Sir N. W. Wraxall so-called secret process Stanhope press Stanhope system became Stanhope's fertile brain stereotyping struggles and failures system of logotypes systems and inventions third Earl Stanhope three names trace the invention Universities of Oxford
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Page 218 - The world can never give The bliss for which we sigh: 'Tis not the whole of life to live, Nor all of death to die.
Page 155 - A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness — Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!
Page 219 - Beyond this vale of tears There is a life above, Unmeasured by the flight of years ; And all that life is love. 4 There is a death whose pang Outlasts the fleeting breath ; O what eternal horrors hang Around
Page 217 - SWEET the moments, rich in blessing, Which before the cross I spend; Life, and health, and peace possessing, From the sinner's dying friend.
Page 155 - Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way To flutter — and the Bird is on the Wing.
Page 217 - FROM the table now retiring, Which for us the Lord hath spread, May our souls, refreshment finding, Grow in all things like our Head ! 2 His example by beholding, May our lives his image bear ; Him our Lord and Master calling, His commands may we revere. 3 Love to God and man displaying, Walking steadfast in his way, Joy attend us in believing, Peace from God through endless day...
Page 155 - Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say; Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday ? And this first Summer month that brings the Rose Shall take Jamshyd and Kaikobad away.
Page 218 - ... He gently knocks, has knocked before; Has waited long, is waiting still: You treat no other friend so ill. 2 But will He prove a friend indeed?
Page 219 - BEHOLD a stranger at the door ! He gently knocks — has knocked before ; Has waited long — is waiting still : You treat no other friend so ill. 2. O, lovely attitude, he stands With melting heart, and loaded hands F O, matchless kindness ! and he shows This matchless kindness to his foes ! 3.
Page 190 - ... etc. Though the word courtesy is derived from court, yet, says the Lady, the thing is not always so readily found now in courts as in humbler places. Here she differs from Spenser, as quoted by Newton : — " Of Court it seems men Courtesie do call, For that it there most useth to abound.