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Updated: June 9, 2025
They had the use of Cadmus's letters, for writing, so far as writing was employed at all in those early days. They were skillful in making such weapons of war, and such simple instruments of music, as were known at the time, and they could erect buildings, of wood, or of stone, and thus constructed such dwellings as they needed, in their towns, and walls and citadels for defence.
Uncertainty of the origin of phonetic writing. Cadmus's alphabet. Difficulties attending the introduction of it. Different modes of writing. The art of writing at first very little used. Proofs of this. Story of the lots. Other instances. The invention of papyrus. Mode of manufacturing papyrus. Mode of using ancient books. Ink. Ink found at Herculaneum.
'By my faith, gentlemen, he said, glancing round at his staff, 'our worthy friend the Mayor must have inherited Cadmus's dragon teeth. Where raised ye this pretty crop, Sir Stephen? How came ye to bring them to such perfection too, even, I declare, to the hair powder of the grenadiers?
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