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Mechanick Exercises on the Whole Art of Printing, repr.
Not Just a Pretty Face: The Contribution of Typography to Lexicography Paul Luna 2009
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Mechanick Exercises on the Whole Art of Printing, repr.
Archive 2009-02-01 Paul Luna 2009
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Enthralled by the prospect of such cast-iron certainty, churchmen started to develop a scientifically-based theology that eventually made Newton's Mechanick and, later, William Paley's Intelligent Designer essential to Western Christianity.
Man vs. God 2009
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At this the Merchant grumbles, the Farmer groans with his taxes, and the Mechanick for want of employ.
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Consequently, the meanest Mechanick, who endeavours in proportion to his Ability, to promote the happiness of his fellow men, deserves better of Society, and should be held in higher Esteem than the Greatest Magistrate, who uses his power for his own Pleasures or Avarice or Ambition.
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Compare them to Moxon's plate (fig. 31) from the _Mechanick Exercises_ (3rd ed., 1703) and to the splendid drawing of the bench plane from André-Jacob Roubo's _L'Art du menuisier_, published in 1769 (fig. 32).
Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 Peter C. Welsh
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The _Godly Minister_ of a certain Town in Connecticut, when he had occasion to be absent on a _Lord's Day_ from his Flock, employ'd an honest _Neighbour_ of some small Talents for a _Mechanick_, to read a
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Tricks, fitter for the mean Notions of a Merchant or a Mechanick, than
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But a Naturalist and Mechanick of this sort is Master of the Reason of both, and might be of the Practice too, if his Industry kept pace with his Speculation; which were very commendable; and without which he cannot be said to be a complete Naturalist or Mechanick.
Part I. Education 1909
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Moxon's foundry was fitted with a large assortment of letter, but his work, judging from the examples left to us, was certainly not up to the theory which he put forward, and he is best remembered for his useful work on printing, which formed the second part of his _Mechanick
A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 Henry R. Plomer 1901
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