Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century;: Comprizing Biographical Memoirs of William Boywer, Printer, F.S.A. and Many of His Learned Friends; an Incidental View of the Progress and Advancement of Literature in this Kingdom During the Last Century; and Biographical Anecdotes of a Considerable Number of Eminent Writers and Ingenious Artists; with a Very Copious Index, Volume 3author, 1812 - Authors, English |
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... edition of the Works of Dr. William Harvey , in one quarto volume . The liberality with which this pub- lication was ... edition . In 1768 he gave the following proof of his liberality . " April 25 , 1768. Mr. Barrington finds that there ...
... edition of the Works of Dr. William Harvey , in one quarto volume . The liberality with which this pub- lication was ... edition . In 1768 he gave the following proof of his liberality . " April 25 , 1768. Mr. Barrington finds that there ...
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... Edition , which will make perhaps the last nearly waste - paper . Mr. Barrington never intended to make any profit by this publication ; and would therefore have from the first offered the copy - right to Messrs . Bowyer , Baker , and ...
... Edition , which will make perhaps the last nearly waste - paper . Mr. Barrington never intended to make any profit by this publication ; and would therefore have from the first offered the copy - right to Messrs . Bowyer , Baker , and ...
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... Edition of these Anecdotes . But my intelligence ( aided by the acute and elegant criticism of the late George Steevens , esq . ) was so greatly extended beyond the limits of a note , that I formed from them a separate publication ...
... Edition of these Anecdotes . But my intelligence ( aided by the acute and elegant criticism of the late George Steevens , esq . ) was so greatly extended beyond the limits of a note , that I formed from them a separate publication ...
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... edition . This assistance was thus handsomely acknowledged : " WORTHY SIR , Nov. 16 , 1766 . The " Though Mr. Millar has not perhaps acquainted you with all my scruples concerning another edition of " The Confessional , ” yet I can have ...
... edition . This assistance was thus handsomely acknowledged : " WORTHY SIR , Nov. 16 , 1766 . The " Though Mr. Millar has not perhaps acquainted you with all my scruples concerning another edition of " The Confessional , ” yet I can have ...
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... editions long before Laud figured in the world . What I meant was , that he took care to have it inserted in all future editions ; but in this I find since I was mistaken , for it ... edition , though pub- 1766. ] 11 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY .
... editions long before Laud figured in the world . What I meant was , that he took care to have it inserted in all future editions ; but in this I find since I was mistaken , for it ... edition , though pub- 1766. ] 11 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY .
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