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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... inscription , written by himself : " Hic jaceo JOHANNES FOSTER , S. T. P. Vindesoriæ natus anno Domini 1731 ; obii anno 1773 . Literas , quarum rudimenta Etonæ hauseram , Cantabrigiæ in Coll . Regali excolui , Etonæ postea docui . Qui ...
... inscription , written by himself : " Hic jaceo JOHANNES FOSTER , S. T. P. Vindesoriæ natus anno Domini 1731 ; obii anno 1773 . Literas , quarum rudimenta Etonæ hauseram , Cantabrigiæ in Coll . Regali excolui , Etonæ postea docui . Qui ...
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... inscription is copied from a marble slab erected on the Eastern wall of Kensington church : " Sacred to the memory of JAMES ELPHINSTON . His mind was ingenuous , his heart was affectionate , his manners , though polished , were simple ...
... inscription is copied from a marble slab erected on the Eastern wall of Kensington church : " Sacred to the memory of JAMES ELPHINSTON . His mind was ingenuous , his heart was affectionate , his manners , though polished , were simple ...
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... inscription placed in Stationers hall , which will appear at the end of these Memoirs . I am just risen from my bed to scribble these imperfect lines , and am too weak to add more than that I am , with the strictest truth , respect ...
... inscription placed in Stationers hall , which will appear at the end of these Memoirs . I am just risen from my bed to scribble these imperfect lines , and am too weak to add more than that I am , with the strictest truth , respect ...
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... did never produce them , is expressly confuted by the words of the Apostle's own narrative , supposing [ the Illyrian ] Malta to be the place The following inscription was written by Mr. Bowyer , as 1767. ] 47 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY .
... did never produce them , is expressly confuted by the words of the Apostle's own narrative , supposing [ the Illyrian ] Malta to be the place The following inscription was written by Mr. Bowyer , as 1767. ] 47 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY .
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John Nichols. The following inscription was written by Mr. Bowyer , as an introduction to one of the many presents which he made of this Book : " TO THE ROYAL SOCIETY , WHOSE COMPREHENSIVE RESEARCHES PENETRATE place where he landed . Nay ...
John Nichols. The following inscription was written by Mr. Bowyer , as an introduction to one of the many presents which he made of this Book : " TO THE ROYAL SOCIETY , WHOSE COMPREHENSIVE RESEARCHES PENETRATE place where he landed . Nay ...
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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.