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This can be done with a pen, and the written deficiency neatly inserted, in fac-simile of the type, or in ordinary script hand; or else the part wanting may be photographed or heliotyped by the best modern process from a duplicate copy of the book.
From 1873-5 he was engaged in perfecting his 'Electro-harmonic telegraph. His speaking telegraph was likewise the outcome of these researches. The 'Telautograph, or telegraph which writes the messages as a fac-simile of the sender's penmanship by an ingenious application of intermittent currents, is the latest of his more important works. Mr. Gray is a member of the firm of Messrs.
With his outrageous Tory hatred of the Yankees, he, of course, declares there's no comparison; ridicules the fac-simile, and hastily seizing what he mistakes for the counterfeit, confounds the company by a quotation from the Latin of "Terence" that very small fragment of the Eunuchus which Plunkett forced into his head through the opposite pole of his person
No wrestling match took place between them; but hand in hand they walked round the ring together, while the spectators gazed upon them in silent wonder. The ensign presented the youth, who might have been styled his fac-simile, with the purse subscribed by his brother officers and himself; and in so doing he offered to double its contents.
I have, however, a fac-simile of a map made a few years later by order of the Intendant Duchesneau; which is decorated with the portrait of one of them, answering to Marquette's description, and probably copied from his drawing. St. Cosme, who saw them in 1699, says that they were even then almost effaced.
Oh, Kittie, just suppose we were ever to find out that we were not sisters, or belonged to somebody else, or something dreadful!" Kittie gave a long, expressive shiver, and hugged her "fac-simile" by way of satisfaction, for such a dreadful thought. "How often we have wondered where she got her lovely hair and eyes," she said slowly.
I walked down Pall Mall in a very unhappy mood, so deep in thought, that I ran against a lady, who was stepping out of her carriage at a fashionable shop. She turned round, and I was making my best apologies to a very handsome woman when her ear-rings caught my attention. They were of alternate coral and gold, and the fac-simile in make to the chain given by Nattée to Fleta.
He started when he saw the wig block and wig, the fac-simile of the one he wore on his head. "What's that?" he exclaimed in a voice hoarse with rage. "Who put it there?" No one answered, and dashing down his hat, he seized the wig block and wig, and with an exclamation of anger threw them overboard. "Now, gentlemen," he said, turning round and attempting to be calm, "what is it you have to say?
From the superscription to one of them, written in 1621 to the Lord-Keeper Williams, and preserved among the Harleian MSS., we give in fac-simile the following words: We select these words only because they happen to contain six of the letters most characteristic of the antique chancery hand of the seventeenth century, t, h, e, r, g, and b, within a space suited to the columns for which we write.
The work is illustrated with several specimens of the early style of writing music, the first being an illuminated engraving and fac-simile of the song, "Sumer is icumen in," the earliest secular composition, in parts, known to exist in any country, its origin being traced back to 1250.
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