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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAP. II. THE ART OF FBINTING, ITS PBOFESSOBS AND PATRONS. A Long period of gross darkness succeeded the time of Wickliffe and Chaucer. Public events will in some measure account for the check that mental activity received. Both Henry IV. and his son, the fifth of the name, adopted the plan of diverting the attention of the people from political grievances and theological investigations, by leading them to war with France. And when, at length, these foreign contests ended, there ensued the terrible civil broils ? the Wars of the Hoses ? that lasted thirty years, were signalized by twelve pitched battles, cost the lives it is said of eighty princes of the blood, almost annihilated the ancient nobility of England, and, what was much worse, devastated the land, checked the efforts of industry, impoverished and brutalized the people, and obviously prevented the spread of learning and the advance of civilization. The two great events of the fifteenth century were the introduction of the art of printing, and the discovery of America. It will be interesting to note some of the subordinate matters connected with literature, prior to the introduction of that art which was to enfranchiie the human mind. It is a little humbling to the pride of human genius to note how the perpetuating and multiplying of a thought depended on small matters. The causes that principally operated to keep the human mind in darkness for ages, were the scarcity of materials for writing, and the consequent dear- ness of manuscripts. Stone slabs, metal plates, wooden blocks, the bark of trees, leaves of a tough fibre, and papyrus, manufactured from a species of rush, which the ancients procured exclusively on the banks of the Nile, were the first materials used before prepared skins, as parchment an...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217993647
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 114
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217993648
  • Publisher Date: 03 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 218 gr


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