Latter Struggles in the Journey of Life, Or, The Afternoon of My Days: Comprehending Chiefly, the Period Between My Forty-fifth and the End of My Sixtieth Year, Being the Fourth Book of My Pilgrimage : from Retrospections of a Sexagenarian : in Wich Some of the More Recent Ups and Downs, the Joys and Sorrows, the Hopes and Disappointments of a Life Passed in Comparative Obscurity ... : the Real Life of a Country Bookseller ...An eccentric book by an eccentric Scottish book seller which, among all the verbiage, probably does give some new insight into the 19th century Scottish book trade. |
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... labours , -being the author of Popular Philosophy , or the Book of Nature Laid Open on Christian Principles , & c . - The affecting History of Tom Bragwell , as well as of a number of minor pieces which have appeared in his different ...
... labours , -being the author of Popular Philosophy , or the Book of Nature Laid Open on Christian Principles , & c . - The affecting History of Tom Bragwell , as well as of a number of minor pieces which have appeared in his different ...
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... labours , and that is , to apologize still more for the numerous inaccuracies which must be suppos- ed to abound in the composition of my work , and which cannot fail to be noticed by those who delight in such discoveries . And this , 1 ...
... labours , and that is , to apologize still more for the numerous inaccuracies which must be suppos- ed to abound in the composition of my work , and which cannot fail to be noticed by those who delight in such discoveries . And this , 1 ...
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... labours of their predecessors in this species of liter- ature ; adopting it as the test , to try the one , the definition of CICERO , who held " True honour to be , the concurrent approbation of good men , " for this forcible reason ...
... labours of their predecessors in this species of liter- ature ; adopting it as the test , to try the one , the definition of CICERO , who held " True honour to be , the concurrent approbation of good men , " for this forcible reason ...
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... labour , " at last , " crowned with an age of ease , ” — I think will hardly be disputed , by those , who know any thing of my history . And that I have endeavoured , while all these things were going on , to do something also , in ...
... labour , " at last , " crowned with an age of ease , ” — I think will hardly be disputed , by those , who know any thing of my history . And that I have endeavoured , while all these things were going on , to do something also , in ...
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... , and to toil once more at the oar of life , at a time , and under circumstances , when it would have been so highly desirable otherwise to have retired from its labours and pursuits . But , although wishing , in 38 LATTER STRUGGLES.
... , and to toil once more at the oar of life , at a time , and under circumstances , when it would have been so highly desirable otherwise to have retired from its labours and pursuits . But , although wishing , in 38 LATTER STRUGGLES.
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