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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 2 0 Browse Search
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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 8: Education. (search)
Mystery, vol. II.; Remarks on Matt. XXVIII. 19, vol. III.; The Gospel a New Creation, vol. IV.; Obituary Notice of Rev. Dr. Osgood, vol. IV. The following articles in the Christian Examiner: -- Reason and Faith, vol. III.; Article on Dr. Robert South's Discourses, vol IV.; Article on Dr. Paley's Life and Writings, vol. v.; Article on Dr. Young's Library of Old English Prose Writers, vol. VI., new series; Article on Crombie's Natural Theology, vol. VII., new series; Article on Reinhard's Plans and Memoirs, &c., vol. VIII., new series. In the American Monthly Review, the following:-- Review of Memoirs of Oberlin1832 In the Unitarian advocate: -- On Isaiah LXIV. 6; The Friendship of the World. In the Scriptural Interpreter: -- St. Paul's Combat at Ephesus1832 In the Juvenile Miscellany, edited by Mrs. Child, the following:-- Several Translations from Herder, at different times; several Illustrations of Scripture, at different times. Right Han
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), M. (search)
spaces, form the staff of music. The instrument has a brass head and five parallel pens like ruling pens; that is, they consist of bent strips of brass which form spouts to conduct the ink from the reservoir to the paper. Mu′sic-print′ing. Music was first printed by types on which the ledger lines were cast. The font displayed all possible variations of character and position. In 1720, music was engraved on plates. Breitkopf's type, 1764, had the ledger lines on separate type. Reinhard printed the ledger lines from engraved plates, and the notes from type at a second pull. Another and more modern plan is to put up the ledger lines in rules and cast the type so as to admit of the ledger line crossing them when necessary. Music has been for a long time engraved by cutters and punches on soft metal plates and printed by the copperplate press. The compositor, having the manuscript of the music before him, selects a thin sheet of soft metal of the proper size, and sin