 | James Douglas - 1913 - 680 sayfa
...Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Heathen: "We have but one man, viz., the Indian Printer, who is able to compose the sheets and correct the Press with understanding." He was an educated Indian, who had been an apprentice of Green, when printing the first edition of... | |
 | Sydney Gould - 1917 - 314 sayfa
...to the Hon. Robert Boyle, concerning the printing of the second edition of his famous Indian Bible: "I desire to see it done before I die, and I am so...sheets, and correct the press with understanding." The Indian Printer, or James Printer, or James-the-Printer—for his name or title appears in all three... | |
 | 1837 - 658 sayfa
...depart joyfully, may I but leave the Bible among them ; for it is tbe word of life." And in another, " I desire to see it done before I die ; and I am so deep in years, that I cannot expect to live long ; and sundry say, if 1 do not procure it printed while I live, it is not within the prospect of human... | |
 | Samuel Gardner Drake - 2001 - 469 sayfa
...depend on •James-the-printer. In 1683, in writing to the Hon. Robert Boyle at London, Mr. Eliot says, "I desire to see it done before I die, and I am so...correct the press with understanding." In another, from the same to the same, dated a year after, he says, "Our slow progress needeth an apology. We have... | |
 | 2007 - 366 sayfa
...Eliot wrote of James's contribution: "I desire to see it [the Old Testament] done before I die . . . besides, we have but one man (viz., the Indian printer) that is able to compose the sheets and connect the press, with understanding."73 James probably worked on two lesser Indian reprints in the... | |
 | 1875 - 980 sayfa
...writing to Robert Boyle, of London, in regard to the second edition of his Indian Bible, he says: " I desire to see it done before I die, and I am so...cannot expect to live long ; besides, we have but one mm, viz., the In iian printer, that is able to compose the sheet and correct the press with understanding.1'... | |
 | Church of Scotland - 1882 - 408 sayfa
...heavenlyminded and devoted missionary. " I desire to see it (meaning another edition of the whole Bible) done before I die, and I am so deep in years that I cannot expect to live long ; and sundry say, if I do not procure it printed while I live, it is not within the prospect of human... | |
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I desire to see it done before I die, and I am so deep in years, that I cannot expect to live long; besides, we have but one man, viz. the Indian Printer, that is able to compose the sheets, and correct the press with understanding. 
