 | 1860 - 782 pages
...many difficulties* at first with these letters, as there had been before with wooden ones; the metal being too soft to support the force of the impression...with a substance which sufficiently hardened it." Since, then, the first letters of Gutenberg were cut in wood, it may be very reasonably concluded that... | |
 | 1861 - 168 pages
...been before with wooden ones, the metal bcing too soft to support the force of the impression, bat this defect was soon remedied by mixing the metal with a substance which sufficiently hardened it. The first book printed with the improved types was Dur indi Rationale ¡n 1459. The first book known... | |
 | Thomas MacKellar - 1866 - 354 pages
...many difficulties at first with these letters, as there had been before with wooden ones, the metal being too soft to support the force of the impression...with a substance which sufficiently hardened it.' EXPLANATION OF THE CORRECTIONS. A wrong letter in a word is noted by drawing a short perpendicular... | |
 | John Mitchell Bonnell - 1867 - 360 pages
...many difficulties at first with these letters, as there had been before -with wooden ones, the metal being too soft to support the force of the impression:...with a substance which sufficiently hardened it.' ... | |
 | Thomas Allen Reed - 1869 - 144 pages
...many difficulties at first with these letters, as there had been before with wooden ones ; the metal being too soft to support the force of the impression...with a substance which sufficiently hardened it." OBSERVE, generally, I. — After each correction a short line, sloped from right to left, should be... | |
 | Thomas Allen Reed - 1869 - 146 pages
...many difficulties at first with these letters, as there had been before with wooden ones ; the metal being too soft to support the force of the impression...remedied, by mixing the metal with a substance which sufliciently hardened it." DUTIES OF THE NEWSPAPER REPORTER. 85 OBSERVE, generally, I.—After each... | |
 | Thomas MacKellar - 1870 - 356 pages
...many difficulties at first with these letters, as there had been before with wooden ones, the metal being too soft to support the force of the impression...with a substance which sufficiently hardened it.' EXPLANATION OF THE CORRECTIONS. A wrong letter in a word is noted by drawing a short perpendicular... | |
 | William Skeen - 1872 - 442 pages
...many difficulties at first with these letters, as there had been before with those of wood; the metal being too soft to support the force of the impression...with a substance which sufficiently hardened it."* * Various metals were nsed in the manufacture of types. Mr. BLADES, at pages xx. and xxiv. of his second... | |
 | Carl Gustav Nieritz - 1873 - 372 pages
...many difficulties at first with these letters as there had been before with wooden ones — the metal being too soft to support the force of the impression...metal with a substance which sufficiently hardened it. Faust and Schoeffer concealed this new improvement by administering an oath of secrecy to all whom... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1874 - 412 pages
...many difficulties at first with these letters, as there had been before with wooden ones, the metal being too soft to support the force of the impression:...with a, substance which sufficiently hardened it.' CHAPTER IX. THE STUDY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. KHETORIG is, from its very nature, so closely connected... | |
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... matrices, Faust was so pleased with the contrivance, that he promised Peter to give him his only daughter Christina in marriage, a promise which he soon after performed. But there were as many difficulties at first with these letters, as there had... 
