The English Gentleman's Library Manual: Or, A Guide to the Formation of a Library of Select Literature; Accompanied with Original Notices, Biographical and Critical, of Authors and BooksW. Goodhugh, 1827 - 392 strán (strany) |
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... Bookseller I am desirous of appearing before the Public , and to found a reputation upon a strict and punctual attention to every department of my business , as best calculated to secure that confidence and favor which I am so desirous ...
... Bookseller I am desirous of appearing before the Public , and to found a reputation upon a strict and punctual attention to every department of my business , as best calculated to secure that confidence and favor which I am so desirous ...
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... Booksellers , 66 . Anecdotes of the Tonsons , 69 . Booksellers of Little Britain , 71 . Anecdotes of Edmund Curll , 72 . Edward Cave , 73 . Loss of Books at the Fire of London , 74 . William Caxton , 75 . German Book Trade , 76 . Poor ...
... Booksellers , 66 . Anecdotes of the Tonsons , 69 . Booksellers of Little Britain , 71 . Anecdotes of Edmund Curll , 72 . Edward Cave , 73 . Loss of Books at the Fire of London , 74 . William Caxton , 75 . German Book Trade , 76 . Poor ...
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... booksellers , during the space of at least two years , to no purpose , none of them undertaking to print the work . It therefore lay in obscurity , until Archdeacon Echard , the author's friend , strongly recommended it to Tonson . It ...
... booksellers , during the space of at least two years , to no purpose , none of them undertaking to print the work . It therefore lay in obscurity , until Archdeacon Echard , the author's friend , strongly recommended it to Tonson . It ...
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... bookseller remonstrated , the author insisted , and the matter was settled . The reverend author departed in high spirits to his home . With much difficulty and great self - denial , a period of about two months was suffered to pass ...
... bookseller remonstrated , the author insisted , and the matter was settled . The reverend author departed in high spirits to his home . With much difficulty and great self - denial , a period of about two months was suffered to pass ...
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... bookseller , however , in a day or two , sent a letter to the following purport . Reverend Sir , --- I beg pardon for innocently amusing myself at your expence , but you need not give yourself any uneasiness . I know better than you ...
... bookseller , however , in a day or two , sent a letter to the following purport . Reverend Sir , --- I beg pardon for innocently amusing myself at your expence , but you need not give yourself any uneasiness . I know better than you ...
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Strana 105 - —Not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure, and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom : what is more is fame, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence, And renders us in things that most concern,
Strana 140 - only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Strana 29 - The common remark as to the utility of reading history having been made.— Johnson. We must consider how very little history there is; I mean real authentic history. That certain kings reigned, and certain battles were fought, we can depend upon as true; but all the colouring, all the philosophy of history, is conjecture.
Strana 96 - 4s, the second edition, corrected, of the Life of Andrew Melville, containing Illustrations of the Ecclesiastical and Literary History of Scotland, during the latter part of the Sixteenth and beginning of the Seventeenth Century, with an Appendix,
Strana 68 - another person enter the house. "This (said Dryden) is Tonson; you will take care not to depart before he goes away, for I have not completed the sheet which I promised him, and if you leave me unprotected, I shall suffer all the rudeness to which his resentment can prompt
Strana 145 - a sufficient price too when it was sold, for then the fame of Goldsmith bad not been elevated, as it afterwards was, by his Traveller; and the bookseller had such faint hopes of profit by his bargain, that he kept the manuscript by him a long time, and did not publish it till after the Traveller had appeared.
Strana 250 - was an extraordinary misjudgment of the celebrated Waller, who speaks thus of the first appearance of Paradise Lost; " The old blind schoolmaster, John Milton, hath " published a tedious poem on the fall of man; if "its length be not considered a merit, it has no "other.
Strana 285 - tombs of knights and high born dames of gorgeous workmanship, with their effigies in coloured marble. On every side the eye was struck with some instance of aspiring mortality; some haughty memorial which human pride had erected over its kindred dust, in this temple of the most humble of all religions. The
Strana 69 - as to a market. This drew to the place a mighty trade, the rather because the shops were spacious, and the learned gladly resorted to them, where they seldom failed to meet with agreeable conversation; and the booksellers themselves were knowing and conversable men, with whom, for the sake of bookish knowledge, the greatest wits
Strana 137 - Sir William Temple was the first writer who gave cadence to English prose: before his time they were careless of arrangement, and did not mind whether a sentence ended with an important word, or an Insignificant word, or with what part of speech it was concluded.