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... century ; in which the four Evangelists were represented with quills in their hands . St. Isodore of Seville , who died about the middle of the seventh century , describes a pen as in use in his time . " The instruments necessary for a ...
... century ; in which the four Evangelists were represented with quills in their hands . St. Isodore of Seville , who died about the middle of the seventh century , describes a pen as in use in his time . " The instruments necessary for a ...
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... centuries after Domi- tian , probably till the conquest of Egypt by the Saracens in the middle of the seventh century . 280. The Greek Septuagint was formed about this period . Some say by seventy or seventy - two translators ; but ...
... centuries after Domi- tian , probably till the conquest of Egypt by the Saracens in the middle of the seventh century . 280. The Greek Septuagint was formed about this period . Some say by seventy or seventy - two translators ; but ...
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... century , previous to which the people of China had been accustomed to transcribe , or print their writings , in volumes of silk or cloth , cut in the form of leaves ; they also wrote upon thin wooden boards or bamboos , with a pointed ...
... century , previous to which the people of China had been accustomed to transcribe , or print their writings , in volumes of silk or cloth , cut in the form of leaves ; they also wrote upon thin wooden boards or bamboos , with a pointed ...
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... centuries . Besides these literary remnants , little more is left to betoken the existence of a former age of refinement , than the ruins of temples , theatres , aqueducts , houses , and sculptured figures , in modern ... CENTURY . 337.
... centuries . Besides these literary remnants , little more is left to betoken the existence of a former age of refinement , than the ruins of temples , theatres , aqueducts , houses , and sculptured figures , in modern ... CENTURY . 337.
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... century . 460. Died , at an advanced age , St. Patrick . We remark an event which , from its influence upon Christian literature , deserves to be recorded ; this was the instruction of the Irish in the use of the Roman letters , by St ...
... century . 460. Died , at an advanced age , St. Patrick . We remark an event which , from its influence upon Christian literature , deserves to be recorded ; this was the instruction of the Irish in the use of the Roman letters , by St ...
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