Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Annals of Mr. Bowyers press 1766 to 1777. First publication of his Memoirs, and other works. Essays and illustrations [including: History of the Stationers' company; A list of their various benefactors; Progress of selling books by catalogues; Printers and booksellersauthor, 1812 - Authors, English |
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... Sermon some years ago ; and I was aware , that if the Author of The Confessional ' should ever come to be known , it would at the same time be known , that the same person was the Author of that pamphlet ; and to repeat that ...
... Sermon some years ago ; and I was aware , that if the Author of The Confessional ' should ever come to be known , it would at the same time be known , that the same person was the Author of that pamphlet ; and to repeat that ...
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... Sermon on the Cause of Impenitence , 1755 , " 8vo ; " Edge - Hill , a Poem , 1767 , " 4to ( for which he obtained a large subscription ) ; " Labour and Genius , or the Mill - stream and the Cascade , 1768 , " 4to ; " Poems Moral and ...
... Sermon on the Cause of Impenitence , 1755 , " 8vo ; " Edge - Hill , a Poem , 1767 , " 4to ( for which he obtained a large subscription ) ; " Labour and Genius , or the Mill - stream and the Cascade , 1768 , " 4to ; " Poems Moral and ...
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... Sermons , " in 1763. He married about the same time Miss Purrier of Leeds . In April 1774 , by the late Dr. Plump- tre's favour , he exchanged his vicarage for the rectory of Hayes . He was also one of the chaplains to the Princess ...
... Sermons , " in 1763. He married about the same time Miss Purrier of Leeds . In April 1774 , by the late Dr. Plump- tre's favour , he exchanged his vicarage for the rectory of Hayes . He was also one of the chaplains to the Princess ...
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... Sermon on the Gospel Method of Jus- tification , 1758 , " 8vo . 18. " Critica Hebræa , or a Hebrew- English Dictionary without Points , & c . 1767 , " 4to . On this work a very sensible Reviewer remarks , " We have here a very consi ...
... Sermon on the Gospel Method of Jus- tification , 1758 , " 8vo . 18. " Critica Hebræa , or a Hebrew- English Dictionary without Points , & c . 1767 , " 4to . On this work a very sensible Reviewer remarks , " We have here a very consi ...
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... Sermons . 1. " The Advantages of a National Observance of Divine and Human Laws , an Assize Sermon at Maidstone , March 13 , 1733-4 . " 2. " The Practice of Religion and Virtue the only sure Foundation of Friendship , preached at St ...
... Sermons . 1. " The Advantages of a National Observance of Divine and Human Laws , an Assize Sermon at Maidstone , March 13 , 1733-4 . " 2. " The Practice of Religion and Virtue the only sure Foundation of Friendship , preached at St ...
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Page 650 - Of Gilbert Walmsley, thus presented to my mind, let me indulge myself in the remembrance. I knew him very early; he was one of the first friends that literature procured me, and I hope that, at least, my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. "He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy, yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was a whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him and he endured me.
Page 21 - I cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own merit with steady consciousness, and waiting, without impatience, the vicissitudes of opinion, and the impartiality of a future generation.
Page 380 - Wilson ; and throughout he shews himself well read in Stage-Coaches, Country Squires, Inns, and Inns of Court. His reflections upon high people and low people, and misses and masters, are very good.
Page 362 - Pasquin. A Dramatick Satire on the Times : Being the Rehearsal of Two Plays, viz. A Comedy call'd The Election ; and a Tragedy call'd The Life and Death of Common-Sense.
Page 330 - The King to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force ; With equal skill to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs admit no force but argument.
Page 330 - THE King observing with judicious eyes The state of both his universities, To one he sent a regiment : for why ? That learned body wanted loyalty. To th' other he sent books, as well discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning.
Page 219 - Raspe; ... to which is prefixed, an introduction on the various uses of this collection, the origin of the art of engraving on hard stones, and the progress of pastes.
Page 375 - From the name of my patron, indeed, I hope my reader will be convinced, at his very entrance on this work, that he will find in the whole course of it nothing prejudicial to the cause of religion and virtue; nothing inconsistent with the strictest rules of decency, nor which can offend even the chastest eye in the perusal.
Page 285 - I give to the Master and Keepers or Wardens and Commonalty of the Mystery or Art of a Stationer of the City of London, such a Sum of Money as will purchase Two Thousand Pounds Three per Cent.
Page 56 - A New and Literal Translation from the Original Hebrew of The Pentateuch of Moses, and of the Historical Books of the Old and New Testament, to the end of the Second Book of Kings, with Notes, Critical and Explanatory, 1773, 4to.