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The well-known motto of the firm, "πολλαὶ μὲν θνητοῖς γλῶτται, μία δ'ἀθανάτοισιν" ("The inhabitants of earth have many tongues, those of heaven have but one"), is said to have been due to the Rev. H. F. Cary. The
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In consequence of the arbitrary regulations of the excise authorities, paper only of certain sizes could be had. It was partially owing to
Bagster's exertions that the rules were modified. Two other forms of the English bible were issued, and, all of them harmonising page for page, began what is
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Bagster was then bringing out. In 1824, Bagster circulated the prospectus of a polyglot grammar in twenty or thirty languages upon the principles of
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French, Italian, Spanish, and German Bible, which was destroyed by fire on the premises in March 1822, when only twenty-three copies of the New
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