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• It is doubtful if these tales--antedating history in their origin, and yet fresh with all the charms of youth to all who read them for the first time--were ever before presented in so chaste and popular form." —  The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers
• Here also Christopher Sauer, a native of Westphalia, published the first newspaper in German type, and in 1743 the first German Bible, antedating, by forty years, the printing of any other Bible in America. —  American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod
• Liberty of the press involves, as necessary corollaries, liberty of meeting, liberty of publishing, liberty of distributing information, all the liberties engendered by the right--antedating all other rights--of informing one's self before voting. —  Napoleon the Little
• The wall of an ancient Pueblo estufa, or ceremonial chamber, built in the pre-esthetic period of architecture, antedating, in stage of culture, the first known step in Egyptian art, is encircled by a band of painted figures, borrowed, like those of the pottery, from a textile source. —  A Study Of The Textile Art In Its Relation To The Development Of Form And Ornament Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-'85, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, (pages 189-252)
• 'Mechanics Free Press' -- antedating, in January, 1828, the first similar journal in England by two years. —  The Armies of Labor A chronicle of the organized wage-earners

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