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... unrecorded until now the annals of this worthy pair of English printers , and the pity of it is that few men now living can recall particulars of them , and of these few none was intimate with the senior or the junior . The. CHAPTER FIRST.
... unrecorded until now the annals of this worthy pair of English printers , and the pity of it is that few men now living can recall particulars of them , and of these few none was intimate with the senior or the junior . The. CHAPTER FIRST.
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... English- man in the eighteenth century seemed to have the ambition , the skill , or the courage to make the business anything better than a plain trade . Even Baskerville , after six years of experiment and ten of production , had to ...
... English- man in the eighteenth century seemed to have the ambition , the skill , or the courage to make the business anything better than a plain trade . Even Baskerville , after six years of experiment and ten of production , had to ...
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... English taste , and a " hearty contempt of the Christian religion . " But if the Englishry suffered his art to languish , there were aliens of finer perception . Benjamin Franklin was his singular good friend ; and a celebrated French ...
... English taste , and a " hearty contempt of the Christian religion . " But if the Englishry suffered his art to languish , there were aliens of finer perception . Benjamin Franklin was his singular good friend ; and a celebrated French ...
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... English horror of innovation . He was always looking for an opportunity , and when he discovered one he seized it . In certain lists of the time his name appears among the subscribers for books that were printed at London while he was ...
... English horror of innovation . He was always looking for an opportunity , and when he discovered one he seized it . In certain lists of the time his name appears among the subscribers for books that were printed at London while he was ...
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... English letters then in vogue , and many foreign ones , in languages dead and living . Perhaps it was on the strength of these sample - books that a philologist came to his press with proposals for a Chinese dictionary . Cir- culars ...
... English letters then in vogue , and many foreign ones , in languages dead and living . Perhaps it was on the strength of these sample - books that a philologist came to his press with proposals for a Chinese dictionary . Cir- culars ...
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Page 249 - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers. Fishponds, Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by I CHARLES COTTON.
Page 263 - Lord. That it may please thee to give us true repentance ; to forgive us all our sins, negligences, and ignorances ; and to endue us with the grace of thy Holy Spirit to amend our lives according to thy holy Word ; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
Page 163 - The mere sight of the little books published by Mr. Cundall — of which some thirty now lie upon my table — is as good as a nosegay. Their actual colours are as brilliant as a bed of tulips, and blaze with emerald, and orange, and cobalt, and gold, and crimson.
Page 262 - We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may pleafe thee to give and preferve to our ufe the kindly fruits of the earth, fo as in due time we may enjoy them...
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Page 16 - It is surely a particular hardship, that I should not get bread in my own country (and it is too late to go abroad) after having acquired the reputation of excelling in the most useful art known to mankind; while every one who excels as a Player, Fiddler, Dancer, &c. not only lives in affluence, but has it in their power to save a fortune.
Page 15 - I have taken the liberty of sending you a specimen of mine, begun ten years ago at the age of forty-seven; and prosecuted ever since, with the utmost care and attention; on the strongest presumption, that if I could fairly excel in this divine art, it would make my affairs easy, or at least give me Bread. But, alas! in both I was mistaken.
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