Typographical Journal, Volume 17,Edições 5-12

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International Typographical Union., 1900
 

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Página 311 - Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
Página 309 - Where still, as opening sense her dictates wrote, Fair virtue put a seal, or vice a blot. The thought was happy, pertinent, and true; Methinks a genius might the plan pursue. I (can you pardon my presumption?) I— No wit, no genius, yet for once will try.
Página 309 - Is coarse brown paper such as peddlers choose To wrap up wares, which better men will use. Take next the miser's contrast, who destroys Health, fame and fortune in a round of joys. Will any paper match him? Yes, throughout, He's a true sinking paper, past all doubt. The retail politician's anxious thought. Deems this side always right, and that stark naught...
Página 332 - Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days ! None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise.
Página 226 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
Página 313 - Our strength is measured by our plastic power. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels, one warehouses, another villas ; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks, until the architect can make them something...
Página 309 - No wit, no genius, yet for once will try. Various the papers various wants produce — The wants of fashion, elegance, and use; Men are as various; and, if right I scan, Each sort of paper represents some man. Pray, note the fop — half powder and half lace — Nice as a bandbox were his dwelling-place; He's the gilt paper, which apart you store, And lock from vulgar hands in the scrutoire.
Página 309 - He foams with censure; with applause he raves — A dupe to rumors, and a tool of knaves ; He'll want no type his weakness to proclaim, While such a thing as foolscap has a name. The hasty gentleman, whose blood runs high, Who picks a quarrel, if you step awry, Who can'ta jest, or hint, or look endure : What is he ? What ? Touch-paper to be sure.
Página 329 - There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion* ; it is this, indeed, which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them.
Página 229 - It is easy to sit in a carriage And counsel the man on foot; But get down and walk and you'll change your talk, As you feel the peg in your boot. It is easy to tell the toiler How best he can carry his pack; But not one can rate a burden's weight Until it has been on his back.

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