Page:The practice of typography; correct composition; a treatise on spelling, abbreviations, the compounding and division of words, the proper use of figures and nummerals by De Vinne, Theodore Low, 1828-1914.djvu/109

 extract from Hansard's Typographia (page 373), in which book that author literally quotes this passage from Nelson's Fasts and Festivals.

Since 1825 the reading world has outgrown this artificial method of using italic, but it still adheres to other methods that are as illogical.