A specimen of Isaiah Thomas's printing types. Being as large and complete an assortment as is to be met with in any one printing-office in America. : Chiefly manufactured by that great artist, William Caslon, Esq; of London.

A specimen of Isaiah Thomas's printing types. Being as large and complete an assortment as is to be met with in any one printing-office in America. : Chiefly manufactured by that great artist, William Caslon, Esq; of London.

Table of contents

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Title page

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Eleven Lines Pica.

Ten Lines Pica.

Nine Lines Pica.

Six Lines Pica.

Five Lines Pica.

Two Lines Great Primer.

Two Lines English.

Two Lines Pica.

Two Lines Small Pica.

Two Lines Long Primer.

Two Lines Burgeois.

Two Lines Brevier.

Two Lines Minion.

Two Lines Nonpareil.

Two Lines Pearl.

French Cannon.

Two Lines Great Primer.

Two Lines English.

DOUBLE PICA. NO. I. DEDICATION.

Great Primer. No. I. DEDICATION.

DOUBLE PICA. NO. II.

GREAT PRIMER. NO. II.

ENGLISH. NO. II. HISTORY OF ENGLAND.

PICA. NO. I. HISTORY OF ENGLAND.

ENGLISH. NO. III.

PICA. NO. II.

SMALL PICA. NO. I. HISTORY OF ENGLAND.

LONG PRIMER. NO. I. HISTORY OF ENGLAND.

SMALL PICA. NO. II.

LONG PRIMER. NO. II.

BURGEOIS. NO. I. HISTORY OF ENGLAND.

LONG PRIMER. NO. III. HISTORY OF ENGLAND.

LONG PRIMER. NO. IV.

BURGEOIS on BREVIER BODY.

MINION. NO. II.

BREVIER. NO. I. HISTORY OF ENGLAND.

BURGEOIS. NO. II.

BREVIER. NO. II.

SMALL PICA. Open. 40 EMMA CORBETT.

LONG PRIMER. Open. 40 EMMA CORBETT.

BURGEOIS on BREVIER BODY. Open. HISTORY OF ENGLAND.

BURGEOIS on BREVIER BODY. NO. II HISTORY OF ENGLAND.

MINION. NO. I.

PEARL Roman

PEARL Italick.

PEARL. Open.

BURGEOIS. Open. 40 EMMA CORBETT.

LONG PRIMER. Scabd.

BURGEOIS. Scabd.

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GREEK.

HEBREW.

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Two Lines Great Primer Black.

Great Primer Black.

Pica Black

SCRIPT. (Circular.)

Tewksbury. By A. WOOD. Words from Dr. WATTS.

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Double Pica Flowers.

Great Primer Flowers.

English Flowers.

Pica Flowers.

Small Pica Flowers.

Long Primer Flowers.

Long Primer Flowers continued.

Long Primer Flowers continued.

Brevier Flowers.

Nonpareil Flowers.

Pearl Flowers.

Types for ornamenting Advertisements in News Papers.

Appendix to the Flowers.

French Canon.

Two Lines English.

Double Pica.

Great Primer.

English.

Small Pica.

Long Primer.

Brevier.

CHECK. Four Lines Pica.

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☞AS the following sheets are designed only to shew the various sizes of Printing Types, no attention has been paid to the correctness of the matter which they contain; and the judicious observer will readily perceive that it was entirely unnecessary.

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A SPECIMEN OF ISAIAH THOMAS's PRINTING TYPES.

Being as large and complete an ASSORTMENT as is to be met with in any one Printing-Office in AMERICA.

Chiefly MANUFACTURED by that great Artist, WILLIAM CASLON, Esq Of LONDON.

PRINTED at WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, By ISAIAH THOMAS. MDCCLXXXV.

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TO THE LOVERS OF LITERATURE, AND ENCOURAGERS OF PRINTING, (THE FIRST AND BEST OF ARTS) IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, THIS SPECIMEN IS HUMBLY OFFERED, FOR THEIR INSPECTION,

BY THEIR VERY HUMBLE SERVANT, I. THOMAS

Worcester, April, 1785.

Eleven Lines Pica.

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WI MP 1231

Ten Lines Pica.

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bjdl ysgf 1234

Nine Lines Pica.

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BW XR acrz nmt

Six Lines Pica.

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ABCD abydgi

Five Lines Pica.

ABFPI acmnse bvnutd

Two Lines Great Primer.

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ABCDEFGI KLMNOPQ

Two Lines English.

ABCDEFGHJ IKLMNOPQR

Two Lines Pica.

ABCDEFGHIJKP QRSTUWXYZAE

Two Lines Small Pica.

ABCDEFGHIKLT MNOPQRSTUVIP

Two Lines Long Primer.

ABCDEFGHIKLMW NOPQRSTUWXYZS

Two Lines Burgeois.

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ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO PQRSTUVWXYZAEPN

Two Lines Brevier.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP QRSTUVWXYZAEWOI

Two Lines Minion.

ABCDEFGHIKLMNOPS QRSTUVWXYZAEOPUI

Two Lines Nonpareil.

ABCDEFGHIKLMNOPQRST UVWXYZAEABCDEFGHIKLI

Two Lines Pearl.

ABCDEFGHIKLMNOPQRSTUVW XYZAEABCDEFGHIKLMNOPQRS

French Cannon.

Quousque tan Quousque tande

Two Lines Great Primer.

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Quousque tandem abutere Catilina, patientia nostra? quamdiu nos eti- Quousque tandem abutere Catilina,

Two Lines English.

Quousque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? quamdiu nos etiam furor iste tuus elu- Quousque tandem, abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? quamdiu nos eti-

DOUBLE PICA. NO. I.
DEDICATION.

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For one person who can adequately relish, and enjoy a work of imagination, twenty are to be found who can taste and judge of, observations on familiar life, and the manners of the age. The satires of Ariosto are more read than the Orlando Furioso, or even Dante. Are there so many cordial admirers of Spenser and Milton, as of Hudibras; if we

For one person who can adequately relish, and enjoy a work of imagination, twenty are to be found who can taste and judge

Great Primer. No. I.
DEDICATION.

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For one person who can adequately relish, and enjoy a work of imagination, twenty are to be found who can taste and judge of, observations on familiar life, and the manners of the age. The satires of Ariosto are more read than the Orlando Furioso, or even Dante. Are there so many cordial admirers of Spenser and Milton, as of Hudibras; if we strike out of the number of these supposed admirers, those who appear such out of fashion, and not of feeling? Swift's rhapsody on poetry is far more popular than Aken-

For one person who can adequately relish, and enjoy a work of imagination, twenty are to be found who can taste and judge of, observations on familiar life, and the manners of the age. The

DOUBLE PICA. NO. II.

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Quousque tandem abutêre, Catilina, patientia nostra? quamdiu nos etiam furor iste tuus eludet? quem ad finem sese effrenata jactabit audacia? nihilne et nocturnum praesidium palatii, nihil urbis vigiliae, nihil ti- Quousque tandem abutêre, Catilina, patientia nostra? quamdiu nos etiam furor iste tuus eludet?

GREAT PRIMER. NO. II.

Quousque tandem abutêre, Catilina, patientia nostra? quamdiu nos etiam furor iste tuus eludet? quem ad finem sese effrenata jactabit audacia? nihilne te nocturnum praesidium palatii, nihil urbis vigiliae, nihil timor populi, nihil consensus bonorum omnium, nihil hic munitissimus habendi senatus locus, ni- Quousque tandem abutêre, Catilina, patientia nostra? quamdiu nos etiam furor iste tuus eludet? quem ad finem sese

[Page]For one person who can adequately relish, and enjoy a work of imagination, twenty are to be found who can taste and judge of, observations on familiar life, and the manners of the age. The satires of Ariosto are more read than the Orlando Furioso, or even Dante. Are there so many cordial admirers of Spenser and Milton as of Hudibras; if we strike out of the number of these supposed admirers, those who appear such out of fashion, and not of feeling? Swift's rhapsody on poetry is far more popular than Akenside's noble Ode to Lord Huntingdon. The EPISTLES on the Characters of men and women, and your sprightly Satires, my good friend, are more frequently perused, and quoted, than L'Allegro and Il Penseroso of Milton. Had you written only these Satires, you would indeed have gained the title of a man

For one person who can adequately relish, and enjoy a work of imagination, twenty are to be found who can taste and judge of, observations on familiar life, and the manners of the age. The satires of Ariosto are more read than the Orlando Furioso, or even Dante. Are there so

ENGLISH. NO. II.
HISTORY OF ENGLAND.

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THE council of England was divided in opinion about the measures to be taken against the queen of Scots. Some members proposed, that as her health was very infirm, her life might be shortened by close confinement; therefore to avoid any imputation of violence or cruelty, the earl of Leicester proposed that she should be dispatched by poison; but the majority insisted on her being put to death by legal process. Accordingly a commission was issued for forty peers, with five judges, or the major part of them, to try and pass sentence upon Mary, daughter and heir of James the fifth, king of Scotland, commonly called queen of Scots, and dowager of France.

THIRTY-SIX of these commissioners arriving at the castle of Fotheringay, presented her with a letter from Elizabeth, commanding her to submit to a trial for her late conspiracy. Mary perused the letter with great

The council of England was divided in opinion about the measures to be taken against the queen of Scots. Some members proposed, that as her health was very infirm, her life

PICA. NO. I.
HISTORY OF ENGLAND.

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THE council of England was divided in opinion about the measures to be taken against the queen of Scots. Some members proposed, that as her health was very infirm, her life might be shortened by close confinement; therefore to avoid any imputation of violence or cruelty, the earl of Leicester proposed that she should be dispatched by poison; but the majority insisted on her being put to death by legal process. Accordingly a commission was issued for forty peers, with five judges, or the major part of them, to try and pass sentence upon Mary, daughter and heir of James the fifth, king of Scotland, commonly called queen of Scots, and dowager of France.

THIRTY six of these commissioners arriving at the castle of Fotheringay, presented her with a letter from Elizabeth, commanding her to submit to a trial for her late conspiracy. Mary perused the letter with great composure; and as she had long foreseen the danger that hung over her, received the intelligence without emotion or astonishment.

The council of England was divided in opinion about the measures to be taken against the queen of Scots. Some of the members proposed, that as her health was very infirm, her life might be shortened by close confinement; therefore to avoid any imputa-

ENGLISH. NO. III.

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Quousque tandem abutêre, Catilina, patientia nostra? quamdiu nos etiam furor iste tuus eludet? quem ad finem sese effrenata jactabit audacia? nihilne te nocturnum praesidium palatii, nihil urbis vigiliae, nihil timor populi, nihil consensus bonorum omnium, nihil hic munitissimus habendi senatus locus nihil horum ora vultusque moverunt? patere tua consilia non sentis? constrictam jam omnium horum conscientia teneri conjurationem tuam non vides? quid proxima, quid superiore Quousque tandem abutêre, Catilina, patientia nostra? quamdiu nos etiam furor iste tuus eludet? quem ad finem sese effrenata jactabit audacia? nihilne te nocturnum praesidium palatii, nihil

PICA. NO. II.

Quousque tandem abutêre, Catilina, patientia nostra? quamdiu nos etiam furor iste tuus eludet? quem ad finem sese effrenata jactabit audacia? nihilne te nocturnum praesidium palatii, nihil urbis vigiliae, nihil timor populi, nihil consensus bonorum omnium, nihil hic munitissimus habendi senatus locus, nihil horum ora vultusque moverunt? patere tua consilia non sentis? [...]nstrictam jam omnium horum conscientia tener [...] conjurationem tuam non vides? quid proxima quid superiore nocte egeris, ubi fueris, quos convocaveris, quid consi [...]i [...] ceperis, quem nostrum ignorare arbitraris? O temp [...]r [...], O mores! Senatus Quousque tandem abutêre, Catilina, patientia nostra? quamdiu nos etiam furor iste tuus eludet? quem ad finem sese enffre [...]a jacta [...] audacia? nihilne t [...] [...] tur [...]um [...] palatii, nihil urbis [...]

SMALL PICA. NO. I.
HISTORY OF ENGLAND.

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THE council of England was divided in opinion about the measures to be taken against the queen of Scots. Some members proposed, that as her health was very infirm, her life might be shortened by close confinement; therefore to avoid any imputation of violence or cruelty, the earl of Leicester proposed that she should be dispatched by poison; but the majority insisted on her being put to death by legal process. Accordingly a commission was issued for forty peers, with five judges, or the major part of them, to try and pass sentence upon Mary, daughter and heir of James the fifth, king of Scotland, commonly called queen of Scots, and dowager of France.

THIRTY-SIX of these commissioners arriving at the castle of Fotheringay, presented her with a letter from Elizabeth, commanding her to submit to a trial for her late conspiracy. Mary perused the letter with great composure; and as she had long foreseen the danger that hung over her, received the intelligence without emotion or astonishment. She said, however, that she wondered the queen of England should command her as a subject, who was an independent sovereign, and a queen like herself. She would never, she said, stoop to any condescension which would lessen her dignity, or prejudice the claims of her posterity. The laws of England, she observed, were unknown to her; she was destitute of counsel; nor could she conceive who were to be her peers, as she had but one

The council of England was divided in opinion about the measures t [...] be taken against the queen of Scots. Some members proposed, that as her health was very infirm, her life might be shortened by close confinement; therefore to avoid any imputation of violence or cruelty, the earl of Leicester proposed that she should be dispatched by poison; but the majority insisted on her being put to death by legal process. Accordingly a commission

LONG PRIMER. NO. I.
HISTORY OF ENGLAND.

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THE council of England was divided in opinion about the measures to be taken against the queen of Scots. Some members proposed, that as her health was very infirm, her life might be shortened by close confinement; therefore to avoid any imputation of violence or cruelty, the earl of Leicester proposed that she should be dispatched by poison; but the majority insisted on her being put to death by legal process. Accordingly a commission was issued for forty peers, with five judges, or the major part of them, to try and pass sentence upon Mary, daughter and heir of James the fifth, king of Scotland, commonly called queen of Scots, and dowager of France.

THIRTY-SIX of these commissioners arriving at the castle of Fotheringay, presented her with a letter from Elizabeth, commanding her to submit to a trial for her late conspiracy. Mary perused the letter with great composure; and as she had long foreseen the danger that hung over her, received the intelligence without emotion or astonishment. She said, however, that she wondered the queen of England should command her as a subject, who was an independent sovereign, and a queen like herself. She would never, she said, stoop to any condescension which would lessen her dignity, or prejudice the claims of her posterity. The laws of England, she observed, were unknown to her; she was destitute of counsel; nor could she conceive who were to be her peers, as she had but one equal in the kingdom. She added, that instead of enjoying the protection of the laws of England, as she had hoped to obtain, she had been confined in prison ever since her arrival in the kingdom; so that she derived neither benefit nor security from them. When the commissioners pressed her to submit to the queen's pleasure, otherwise they would proceed against her as con-

The council of England was divided in opinion about the measures to be taken against the queen of Scots. Some members proposed, that as her health was very infirm, her life might be shortened by close confinement; therefore to avoid any imputation of violence or cruelty, the earl of Leicester proposed that she should be dispatched by poison; but the majority insisted on her being put to death by legal process. Accordingly a commission was issued for forty peers, with five judges, or

SMALL PICA. NO. II.

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Quousque tandem abutêre, Catilina, patientia nostra? quamdiu nos etiam furor iste tuus eludet? quem ad finem sese effrenata jactabit audacia? nihilne te nocturnum praesidium palatii, nihil urbis vigiliae, nihil timor populi, nihil consensus bonorum omn [...] um, nihil hic munitissimus habendi senatus locus, nihil horum ora vultusque moverunt? patere tua consilia non sentis? constrictam jam omnium horum conscientia teneri conjurationem tuam non vides? quid proxima, quid superiore nocte egeris, ubi fueris, quos convocaveris, quid consilii ceperes, quem nostrum ignorare arbitraris? O tempora, O mores! Senatus hoc intelligit, consul vidit: hic tamen vivit. vivit? imo vero etiam in senatum venit: fit publici consilii particeps: notat & designat oculis ad caedem unumquemque nostrum. Nos autem viri fortes satisfacere reipub. videmur, si istius surorem ac tela Quousque tandem abut [...]re, Catilina, patientia nostra? quamdiu nos etiam furor iste tuus eludet? quem ad finem sese effrenata jactabit audacia? nihilne te nocturnum praesidium palatii, nihil urbis vigiliae, nihil timor populi, nihil consensus bonorum omnium, nihil hic munitissimus habendi senatus locus, nihil horum ora

LONG PRIMER. NO. II.

Quousque tandem abutêre, Catilina, patientia nostra? quamdiu nos etiam furor iste tuus eludet? quem ad finem sese effrenata jactabit audacia? nihilne te nocturnum praesidium palatii, nihil urbis vigiliae, nihil timor populi, nihil consensus bonorum omnium, nihil hic munitissimus habendi senatus locus, nihil horum ora vult [...]sque moverunt? patere tua consilia non sentis? constrictam jam omnium horum conscientia teneri conjurationem tuam non vides? quid proxima, quid superiore nocte egeris, ubi fueris, quos convocaveris, quid consilii ceperis, quem nostrum ignorare arbitraris? O tempora, O mores! Senatus hoc intelligit, consul vidit: hic tamen vivit▪ vivit? imo vero etiam in senatum venit: fit publici consilii particeps: notat et designat oculis ad caedem unumq [...]emque nostrum. Nos autem viri fortes satisfacere reipub. videmur, si istius f [...]rorem ac tela vitemus. Ad mortem te, Catilina, duci jussu con- Quousque tandem abut [...]re, Catilina, patientia nos [...]ra? quamdiu nos eti [...]m furor iste tuus eludet? quem ad f [...]n [...]m sese effrenata ja [...]abit audacia? nihilne te n [...]urnum pr [...]sidium palatii, nihil urbis [...], nihil tim [...]r p [...]puli, nihil consensus [...], nihil [...] habe [...]di s [...]natus [...], ni [...]il h [...]rum [...] moverunt? patere [...]? constrictam [...]

BURGEOIS. NO. I.
HISTORY OF ENGLAND.

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THE council of England was divided in opinion about the measures to be taken against the Queen of Scots. Some members proposed, that as her health was very infirm, her life might be shortened by close confinement; therefore to avoid any imputation of violence or cruelty, the earl of Leicester proposed that she should be dispatched by poison; but the majority insisted on her being put to death by legal process. Accordingly a commission was issued for forty peers, with five judges, or the major part of them, to try and pass sentence upon Mary, daughter and heir of James the fifth, king of Scotland, commonly called queen of Scots, and dowager of France.

THIRTY-SIX of these commissioners arriving at the castle of Fotheringay, presented her with a letter from Elizabeth, commanding her to submit to a trial for her late conspiracy. Mary perused the letter with great composure; and as she had long foreseen the danger that hung over her, received the intelligence without emotion or astonishment. She said, however, that she wondered the queen of England should command her as a subject, who was an independent sovereign, and a queen like herself. She would never, she said, stoop to any condescension which would lessen her digni [...]y or prejudice the claims of her posterity. The laws of England, she observed, were unknown to her; she was destitute of counsel; nor could she conceive who were to be her peers, as she had but one equal in the kingdom. She added, that instead of enjoying the protection of the laws of England, as she had hoped to obtain, she had been confined in prison ever since her arrival in the kingdom; so that she derived neither benefit nor security from them. When the commissioners pressed her to submit to the queen's pleasure, otherwise they would proceed against her as contumacious, she declared she would rather suffer a thousand deaths, than own herself a subject to any prince on earth. That, however, she was ready to vindicate herself in a full and free parliament, as for aught she knew, this meeting of commissioners was devised against her life, on purpose to take it away with a pretext of justice. She

The coun [...]il of England was divided in opinion about the measures to be taken against the queen of Scots. Some members proposed, that as her health was very infirm, her life might be shortened by close confinement; therefore to avoid any imputation of violence o [...] cruelty, the earl of Leicester proposed that she should be dispatched by poison; but the majority insisted on her being put to death by legal [...] commission was issued for forty peers, with [...]

LONG PRIMER. NO. III.
HISTORY OF ENGLAND.

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THE council of England was divided in opinion about the measures to be taken with the queen of Scots. Some members proposed, that as her health was very infirm, her life might be shortened by close confinement▪ therefore, to avoid any imputation of violence or cruelty, the earl of Leicester proposed that she should be dispatched by poison; but the majority insisted on her being put to death by legal process. Accordingly a commission was issued for forty peers, with five judges, or the major part of them, to try and pass sentence upon Mary, daughter and heir of James the fifth, king of Scotland, commonly called queen of Scots, and dowager of France.

THIRTY-SIX of these commissioners arriving at the castle of Fotheringay, presented her with a letter from Elizabeth, commanding her to submit to trial for her late conspiracy. Mary perused the letter with great composure; and as she had long foreseen the danger that hung over her, received the intelligence without emotion or astonishment. She said, however, that she wondered the queen of England should command her as a subject, who was an independent sovereign, and a queen like herself. She would never, she said, stoop to any condescension which would lessen her dignity, or prejudice the claims of her posterity. The laws of England, she observed, were unknown to her; she was destitute of counsel; nor could she conceive who were to be her peers, as she had but one equal in the kingdom. She added, that instead of enjoying the protection of the laws of England, as she had hoped to obtain, she had been confined in prison ever since her arrival in the kingdom▪ so that she derived neither benefit nor security from them. When the commissioners pressed her to submit to the queen's pleasure

THE council of England was divided in op [...]nion about the measures to be taken against the queen of Scots. Some members proposed, that as her health was very infirm, her life might be shortened by close confinement; therefore, to avoid an [...] imputation of violence or cruelty, the earl of Leicester proposed, that she should be dispatched by poison▪ but the majority insisted on her being put to dea [...]h by legal process. Accordingly a commission was issued for forty peers, with fi [...]e judges [...] the major [...] of them▪ to [...] and [...]

LONG PRIMER. NO. IV.

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Quousque tandem abutêre, Catilina, patientia nostra? quamd [...] nos etiam furor iste tuus eludet? quem ad finem sese effrenata jactabit audacia? nihilne te nocturnum praesidium palatii, nihil urbis vigiliae, nihil timor populi, nihil consensus bonorum omnium, nihil hic munitissimus habendi senatus locus, nihil horum ora vultusque moverunt? patere tua consilia non sentis? constrictam jam omnium horum conscientia teneri conjurationem tuam non vides? quid proxima, quid superiore nocte egeris, ubi fueris, quos convocaveris, quid consilii ceperis, quem nostrum ignorare arbitraris? O tempora, O mores! Quousque tandem abut [...]re, Catilina, patientia nostra? quamdiu nos etiam furor iste tuus eludet? quem ad finem sese effrenata jactabit audacia? nihilne te nocturnum pr [...]efidium palatii, nihil urbis vigiliae, nihil timor populi, nihil consensus bonorum omnium, nihil hic muni-

BURGEOIS on BREVIER BODY.

Quousque tandem abutêre, Catilina, patientia nostra? quamdiu nos etiam furor iste tuus eludet? quem ad finem sese effrenata jactabit audacia? nihilne te nocturnum praesidium palatii, nihil urbis vigiliae, nihil timor populi, nihil consensus bonorum omnium, nihil hic munitissimus habendi senatus locus, nihil horum ora vultusque moverunt? patere tua consilia non sentis? constrictam jam omnium horum conscientia teneri conjurationem tuam non vides? quid proxima, quid superiore nocte egeris, ubi fueris, quos convocaveris, quid consilii ceperis, quem nostrum ignorare arbitraris? O tempora, O mores! Senatus hoc intelligit, consul vidit: hic tamen vivit. vivit▪ imo vero etiam in senatum venit▪ fit publici consilii particeps: notat et designat oculis ad caedem unumquemque nostrum. Nos Quousque tandem abutêre, Catilina, patientia nostra? quamdiu nos etiam furor iste tuus eludet? quem ad finem sese effrenata jactabit audacia? nihilne te nocturnum praesidium palatii, nihil urbis vigiliae, nihil timor populi, nihil consensus bonorum omnium, nihil hic munitissimus ha- ĂĀÂ [...]Ē II [...]Ō Ubreve;Ū ăāâàáä ĕēêèéë [...]īîìíï ŏōôòóö ŭūûùúü ŵŷ w̄ȳ [...]şţ [...]

MINION. NO. II.

Quousque tandem abutêre, Catilina, patientia nostra? quamdiu nos etiam furor iste tuus elud [...]? quem ad finem sese effrenata jactabit audacia? nihilne te nocturnum praesidium palatii, nihil urbis vigiliae, nihil timor populi, nihil consensus bonorum omnium, nihil hic munitissimus habendi senatus locus, nihil horum ora vultu [...]que moverunt? patere tua consilia non sentis? constrictam jam omnium horum conscientia teneri conjurationem tuam non vides? quid proxima, quid superiore nocte egeris, ubi fueris, quos convocaveris, quid consilii c [...]peris, quem nostrum ignorare arbitraris? O tempora, O mores! Senatu [...] hoc intelligit, consul vidit: hic tamen vivit. vivit? imo vero etiam in senatum venit: fit publici consilii particeps: notat et designat oculis ad caedem unumquemque nostrum. Nos autem viri fortes satisfacere reipub. videmur, si istius furorem ac tela vitemus. Ad mortem te, Catilina, duci juss [...] Quousque tandem abut [...]re, Catilina, patientia nostra [...] quamdiu nos etiam furor iste tuus [...]ludet [...] quem ad fi [...]em s [...]se effr [...]na [...]a jactabit audacia? nihilne te nocturnum [...] palat [...], nihil urbis vigiliae, nihil timor populi, nihil consensus bonorum [...], nihil hic [...] habendi [...], nihil horum [...]ra [...]

BREVIER. NO. I.
HISTORY OF ENGLAND.

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THE council of England was divided in opinion about the measures to be taken against the queen of Scots. Some members proposed, [...] as her health was very infirm, her life might be shortened by clo [...] confinement; therefore to avoid any imputation of violence or crue [...]y, the earl of Leicester proposed that she should be dispatched by poison; but the majority insisted on her being put to death by legal process. Accordingly a commission was issued for forty peers, with five judges, or the major part of them, to try and pass sentence upon Mary, daughter and heir of James the fifth, king of Scotland, commonly called queen of Scots, and dowager of France.

THIRTY-SIX of these commissioners arriving at the castle of Fotheringay, presented her with a letter from Elizabeth, commanding her to submit to a trial for her late conspiracy. Mary perused the letter with great composure; and as she had long foreseen the danger that hung over her, received the intelligence without emotion or astonishment. She said, however, that she wondered the queen of England should command her as a subject, who was an independent sovereign, and a queen like herself. She would never, she said, stoop to any condescension which would lessen her dignity, or prejudice the claims of her posterity. The laws of England, she observed, were unknown to her; she was destitute of counsel; nor could she conceive who were to be her peers, as she had but one equal in the kingdom. She added, that instead of enjoying the protection of the laws of England, as she had hoped to obtain, she had been confined in prison ever since her arrival in the kingdom; so that she derived neither benefit nor security from them. When the commissioners pressed her to submit to the queen's pleasure, otherwise they would proceed against her as contumacious, she declared she would rather suffer a thousand deaths, than own herself a subject to any prince on earth. That however she was ready to vindicate herself in a full and free parliament, as for aught she knew, this meeting of commissioners was devised against her life, on purpose to take it away with a pretext of justice. She exhorted them to consult their own consciences, and to remember that the theatre of the world was much more extensive than that of the kingdom of England. At length the vice-chamberlain Hatton vanquished her objections, by representing that she injured her reputation by avoiding a trial, in which her innocence might be proved to the satisfaction of all mankind. This observation made such an impression upon her, that she agreed to plead, if they would admit and allow her protest, of disallowing all subjection. This, however, they refused; but they satisfied her, by entering it upon record, and thus they proceeded to trial.

The council of England was divided in opinion about the measures to be taken against the queen of Scots. Some members proposed, that as her health was very infirm, her life might be shortened by close confinement; therefore to avoid any imputation of violence or cruelty, the earl of Leicester proposed that she should be dispatched by poison; but the majority insisted on her being put to death by legal process. Accordingly a commission was issued for forty peers, with five judges, or the major part of them, to try and pass sentence upon Mary, daughter and heir of James

BURGEOIS. NO. II.

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Quousque tandem abutêre, Catilina, patientia nostra? quamdiu nos etiam furor iste tuus eludet? quem ad finem sese effrenata jactabit audacia? nihilne te nocturnum praesidium palatii, nihil urbis vigiliae, nihil timor populi, nihil consensus bonorum omnium, nihil hic munitissimus habendi senatus locus, nihil horum ora vultusque moverunt? patere tua consilia non sentis? constrictam jam omnium horum conscientia teneri conjurationem tuam non vides? quid proxima, quid superiore nocte egeris, ubi fueris, quos convocaveris, quid consillii ceperis, quem nostrum ignorare arbitraris? O tempora, O mores! Senatus hoc intelliget, consul vidit: hic tamen vivit. vivit? imo vero etiam in senatum venit: fit publici consilii particeps: notat and designat oculis ad caedem unumquemque nostrum. Nos autem viri fortes satisfacere reipub. videmur, si istius furorem ac tela vitemus. Ad mortem te, Catilina, duci jussu consulis jam pridem opertebat: in te conferri pestem istam, quam tu in nos omnes jamdiu machinaris. An vero vir amplissimus, P. Scipio, pontifex maximus, Tiberium Gracchum mediocriter labefactantem statum reipublicae privatus interfecit: Catilinam vero orbem terrae caede atque incendiis vastare cupientem nos consules perfemerus? nam illa nimis antiqua praetereo, quod Q. Servilius A [...]ala Sp. Melium, Quousque tandem abutêre, Catilina, patientia nostra? quamdiu nos etiam furor iste tuus eludet? quem ad finem sese effrenata jactabit audacia? nihilne te nocturnum praesidium palatii, nihil urbis vigiliae, nihil timor populi, nihil consensus bonorum omnium, nihil hic munitissimus habendi senatus locus, nihil horum ora vultusque moverunt? patere tua consilia non sentis?

BREVIER. NO. II.

Quousque tandem abutêre, Catilina, patentia nostra? quamdiu nos etiam furor iste tuus eludet? quem ad finem sese effrenata jactabit audacia? nihilne te nocturnum praesidium palatii, nihil urbis vigiliae, nihil timor populi, nihil consensus bonorum omnium, nihil hic munitissimus habendi senatus locus, nihil horum ora vultusque moverunt? patere tua consilia non sentis? constrictam jam omnium horum conscientia teneri conjurationem tuam non vides? quid proxima, quid superiore nocte egeris, ubi fueris, quos convocaveris, quid consilii ceperis, quem nostrum ignorare arbitraris? O tempora, O mores! Senatus hoc intelligit, consul vidit: hic tamen vivit. vivit? imo vero etiam in senatum venit: fit publicii consilii particeps: notat and designat oculis ad caedem unumquemque nostrum. Nos autem viri fortes satisfacere reipub. videmur, si istius furorem ac tela vitemus. Ad mortem te, Catilina, duci jussu consulis jam pridem opertebat: in te conferis pestem istam, quam tu in nos omnes jamdiu machinaris. An vero vir amplissimus, P. Scipio, pontifex maximus, Tiberium Gracchum mediocriter labefactantem statum reipublicae privatus interfecit: Catilinam vero orbem terrae caede atque incendiis vastare cupientem nos consules perferemus? nam illa nimis antiqua praetereo, quod Q. Quousque tandem abutêre, Catilina, patientia nostra? quamdiu nos etiam furor iste tuus eludet? quem ad finem sese effrenata jactabit audacia? n [...]hilne te nocturnum praesidium palatii, nihil urbis vigiliae, nihil timor populi, nihil consensus bonorum omnium, nihil hic munitissimus habendi senatus locus, nihil horum ora vultusque moverunt? patere tua consilia non sentis? constrictam jam omnium horum consci [...]entia teneri conjurationem tuam non vides? quid proxima, quid superiore nocte egeris, ubi fu [...]ris, quos convocaveris, quid consilii ceperis, quem nostrum ignorare arbitraris? O tempora, O mores! Senatus hoc intelligit, consul vidit: hi [...] tamen vi-

SMALL PICA. Open.
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I CANNOT pursue the subject—Rouse, rouse yourself, my Emma. For my sake, let all your fortitude be exerted. We are both young;—there is the same protecting Providence by water as by land; in the fields of war as on the plains of peace. The future is a wide space, and may contain within its circle a thousand blessings. Struggle then against the storm bravely. Your inferences are too gloomy: various opportunities will offer, doubt not, to speed your generous intercourse. The wide world of sentiment and sensation still opens upon us. By aid of this little friendly instrument, we may range through those paths which ocean seems to separate. However remote you

LONG PRIMER. Open.
40 EMMA CORBETT.

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I CANNOT pursue the subject—Rouse, rouse yourself, my Emma. For my sake, let all your fortitude be exerted. We are both young;—there is the same protecting Providence by water as by land; in the fields of war, as on the plains of peace. The future is a wide space, and may contain within its circle a thousand blessings. Struggle then against the storm bravely. Your inferences are too gloomy: various opportunities will offer, doubt not, to speed our generous intercourse. The wide world of sentiment and sensation still opens upon us. By aid of this little friendly instrument, we may range through those paths which ocean seems to separate. However remote, you should still learn to think it a superiour blessing, that in some part of animated nature, there still exists

BURGEOIS on BREVIER BODY. Open.
HISTORY OF ENGLAND.

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THE council of England was divided in opinion about the measures to be taken against the queen of Scots. Some members proposed, that as her health was very infirm, her life might be shortened by close confinement; therefore, to avoid any imputation of violence or cruelty, the earl of Leicester proposed th [...]t she should be dispatched by poison; but the majority insisted o [...] her being put to death by legal process. Accordingly a commission was issued for forty peers, with five judges, or the major part of them, to try and pass sentence upon Mary, daughter and heir of James the fifth, king of Scotland, commonly called queen of Scots, and dowager of France.

BURGEOIS on BREVIER BODY. NO. II
HISTORY OF ENGLAND.

THE council of England was divided in opinion about the measures to be taken against the queen of Scots. Some members proposed, that as her health was very infirm, her life might be shortened by close confinement; therefore, to avoid any imputation of violence or cruelty, the earl of Leicester proposed that she should be dispatched by poison; but the majority insisted on her being put to death by legal process. Accordingly a commission was issued for forty peers, with five judges, or the major part of them, to try and pass sentence upon Mary, daughter and heir of James the fifth, king of Scotland, commonly called queen of Scots, and dowager of France.

THIRTY-SIX of these commissioners arriving at the castle of Fotheringay, presented her with a letter from Elizabeth, commanding her to submit to a trial for her late conspiracy. Mary perused the

THE council of England was divided in opinion about the measures to be taken against the queen of S [...]ots. Some members proposed, that as her health was very infirm, her l [...]fe might be shortened by lose confinement; therefore, to avoid any imputation of violenc [...] or [...]ruelt [...], the earl of Leicester proposed that she should be dispatched by poison; but the ma [...]ority insisted on her being put to death by legal [...]

MINION. NO. I.

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Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself: 2 I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before thee touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews: 3 Especially, because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews; wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently. 4 My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews, 5 Which knew me from the beginning (if they would testify) that after the most strai [...]st sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee. 6 And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers: 7 Unto which promise our twelve tribes instantly serving God d [...]y and night hope to come, for which hopes sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews. 8 Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that God should raise the dead? 9 I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. 10 Which thing I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and, when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them. 11 And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them [...]o blaspheme: and being exceed-

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I CANNOT pursue the subject—Rouse, rouse yourself, my Emma. For my sake, let all your fortitude be exerted. We are both young;—there is the same protecting Providence by water as by land; in the fields of War, as on the plains of Peace. The future is a wide space▪ and may contain within its circle a thousand blessings. Struggle then against the storm bravely. Your inferences are too gloomy: various opportunities will offer, doubt not, to speed our generous intercourse. The wide world of sentiment and sensation still opens upon us. By aid of this little friendly instrument, we may range through those paths which Ocean seems to separate. However remote, you should still learn to think it a superiour blessing, that in some part of animated Nature, there still exists the counter part of Emma—congenial, as dear; one, whom no circumstance can change, but [...]ho must ever remain true to every touch of joy, and [...]-

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LED by revolving thought, my wand'ring steps

Explor'd the vale of solitude. A rill

Slow-tinkling, murmur'd as I pass'd along,

Its bank gay-rob'd with beauty's balmy train.

O'er me the steepy cliffs impending, frown'd 5

Horrifick; from their sides, the mould'ring earth

Crumbled, and gradual shook the hanging arch,

Whose dark spire quiver'd o'er the void below.

Between their gleaming sides, refulgent flam'd

The sun's broad orb. As on I walk'd, the scene 10

Open'd, and from the plain one winding path

(Ragged with stones loud rattling down the height;)

Led to the summit of the cliff. I scal'd

Th' ascent, and wond'ring, from its brow beheld

A boundless prospect, shagg'd with rising hills,15

Rocks, desarts, woods, dales, landscapes, groves, and spires.

Far on the left, a bare and barren heath,

(Save where the wild trees form'd a little grove,

Crown'd with spontaneous herbage) rushing chill'd

My veins. 'Twas all a solemn scene, retir'd 20

Like that where ancient Druids liv'd remote,

Conversing with the moon! and airy shapes

(So Fame reports) beneath the wan dim ray,

Sweep shadowy o'er the blighted law [...], or soar

High on the streamy flame, or ride the winds; 25

Or hear the murm'ring wood, when darkness wraps

Her cloudy curtain [...]ound the world, and Fear

Knocks at the heart of Man.—S [...]ch is the haunt

Of fairy [...]rains, when silver [...] the hills▪—

BURGEOIS. Scabd.

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LED by revolving thought, my wand'ring steps

Explor'd the vale of solitude. A rill,

Slow-tinkling, murmur'd as I pass'd along,

Its bank gay-rob'd with beauty's balmy train.

O'er me the steepy cliffs impending, frown'd 5

Horrifick; from their sides, the mould'ring earth

Crumbled, and gradual shook the hanging arch,

Whose dark spire quiver'd o'er the void below.

Between their gleaming sides, refulgent flam'd

The sun's broad orb. As on I walk'd, the seene 10

Open'd, and from the plain one winding path

(Ragged with stones loud rattling down the height;)

Led to the summit of the cliff. I scal'd

Th' ascent, and wond'ring, from its brow beheld

A boundless prospect, shagg'd with rising hills,15

Rocks, desarts, woods, dales, landscapes, groves, and spires.

Far on the left, a bare and barren heath,

(Save where the wild trees form'd a little grove,

Crown'd with spontan'ous herbage) rushing chill'd

My veins. 'Twas all a solemn scene, retir'd 20

Like that where ancient Druids liv'd remote,

Conversing with the moon! and airy shapes

(So Fame reports) beneath the wan dim ray,

Sweep shadowy o'er the blighted lawn, or soar

High on the streamy flame, or ride the winds; 25

Or hear the murm'ring wood, when darkness wraps

Her cloudy curtain round the world, and Fear

Knocks at the heart of Man.—Such is the haunt

Of fairy-trains, when silver tips the hills;

That in the deep grove's shadowy gloom disport; 30

Or hear the wild wind whistle, or repos'd,—

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ΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛ ΜΝΞΟΠΡΣΤ ΥΦ ΧΨΩΓΔΘΞΠΣΥ

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Exchange for At sight of this Exchange of the same Tenor and Dale unpaid, pay to value received, and Charge it, with or without further Advice to

Your most humble Servant, To I. Thomas, print.

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And be it further hereby enacted, That the Mayors, Bailiffs, or other

Great Primer Black.

And be it further hereby enacted, That the Mayors, Bailiffs, or other head Officers of every Town and Place corporate, and city within this Commonwealth, being Justice or Justices of the Peace, shall have the same authority by virtue of this Act, within

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And be it further hereby enacted, That the Mayors, Bailiffs, or other head Officers of every Town and place corporate, and city within this Realm, being Justice or Justices of the Peace, shall have the same authority, by virtue of this Act, within the limits or precincts of their jurisdictions, as well out of Sessions as at their Sessions, if they hold

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WORCESTER ss.

To the Select men of the Town of in said County, Greeting [...]

WHEREAS upon comparing the Votes for the choice of a Register of Deeds, on the first Tuesday of December instant, no one had a Majority:

These are, therefore, in the name of the Commonwealth of Massachu [...]e [...] ▪ to require and direct you forthwith, in du [...] manner and form, to convene the Inhabitants of your Town, qualified as the law directs, to vote for the Choice of Representatives, to bring in their votes for some discreet suitable Person to fill the office of Register of Deeds, who possesses a Freehold within said County of the value at least of ten Pounds lawful money, per annum, and you are to seal up

Tewksbury. By A. WOOD. Words from Dr. WATTS.

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[...] [...] I'm tir'd with Visits, Modes and Forms, And Flatteries paid to Fellow Worms; Their Conversation cloys: Their [...] [...] [...] [...] vain Amours and empty Stuff. But I can ne'er enjoy enough—Of thy dear Company, my Lord, thou Life of all my Joys. [...] [...]

From the Press at Worcester, Typographically, by I. THOMAS.

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For value received in the County of promise Robert Trusty, to pay him, or his Order▪

Lawful Silver Money, at Six Shilling [...] and Eight Pence per Ounce, on Demand, with lawful Interest.

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I. Thomas, Printer, Worcester, Massachusetts, has with the greatest care and attention furnished himself with the best Printing Materials that could be made in Europe, and has purchased these articles to a very large amount. —He has every thing requisite for neat▪ elegant▪ or ornamental Printing, be the work small or large, and will be happy to execute every command in the way of his Profession, on the most reasonable Terms, and with Dispatch.

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Title statement

A specimen of Isaiah Thomas's printing types. Being as large and complete an assortment as is to be met with in any one printing-office in America. : Chiefly manufactured by that great artist, William Caslon, Esq; of London.

Thomas, Isaiah, 1749-1831.

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Date

2005-03.

ID [DLPS]

N15181

ID [TCP]

N15181

ID [STC]

Evans 19272

ID [NOTIS]

APY2393

ID [IMAGE-SET]

19272

ID [EVANS-CITATION]

99029470

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Early American Imprints, 1639-1800 ; no. 19272.

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— A specimen of Isaiah Thomas's printing types. Being as large and complete an assortment as is to be met with in any one printing-office in America. : Chiefly manufactured by that great artist, William Caslon, Esq; of London., Thomas, Isaiah, 1749-1831..

Extent

20, [2], 21-24, [2], 25-42 leaves, [1] folded leaf ; 19 cm. (4to)

by Isaiah Thomas.,. Printed at Worcester, Massachusetts, :: MDCCLXXXV [i.e., 1787].. (Running title: Thomas's specimen. 1785.) (The unnumbered leaves inserted after leaf 20 and after leaf 24, and the two leaves (numbered 41, 42) inserted before the final leaf have running title: Thomas's specimen. 1787.) (Errors in foliation: leaves 32-42 misnumbered 30, 34, 36, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41, 41, 42, 42. In some copies, leaves 3, 27, 31 are misnumbered 2, 42, 13, and the last line of leaf 27 differs slightly.)

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