[6] Quid? si nos non interpretum fungimur munere, sed tuemur ea, quae dicta sunt ab iis quos probamus, eisque nostrum iudicium et nostrum scribendi ordinem adiungimus, quid habent, cur Graeca anteponant iis, quae et splendide dicta sint neque sint conversa de Graecis? nam si dicent ab illis has res esse tractatas, ne ipsos quidem Graecos est cur tam multos legant, quam legendi sunt. quid enim est a Chrysippo praetermissum in Stoicis? legimus tamen Diogenem,— Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
Hermannus Hugo, De prima scribendi origine_, Trajecti ad Rhenum, 1738, pp. 304-305, and note, p. 305; Karl Krumbacher, "Woher stammt das Wort Ziffer (Chiffre)?— The Hindu-Arabic Numerals
This cacoethes scribendi is the pest of every local curiosity or public watering-place.— Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
Inter capitolii ruinas stans primum hujus operis scribendi concilium cepit.— Memoirs of My Life and Writings
De stylo, et optimo scribendi genere.— Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems

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