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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John Nichols. CONTENTS OF THE THIRD VOLUME . Annals of Mr. Bowyer's Press from 1766 to 1777 .. Page 1-295 First ... John Rivington , Esq .. Thomas Osborne , Esq .. ... ..... The Ballards of Little Britain .. Sir James Hodges , Knight ...
John Nichols. CONTENTS OF THE THIRD VOLUME . Annals of Mr. Bowyer's Press from 1766 to 1777 .. Page 1-295 First ... John Rivington , Esq .. Thomas Osborne , Esq .. ... ..... The Ballards of Little Britain .. Sir James Hodges , Knight ...
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John Nichols. Memoirs of Thomas Wotton , Esq .. 440 Mr. John Hinton .. 441 Mr. John March ..... ibid . Mr. Thomas Spilsbury .. 442 Mr. Joseph Cooper ... ibid . James Simmons , Esq .... 443 Mr. George Robinson .. 445 Mr. John Baskerville ...
John Nichols. Memoirs of Thomas Wotton , Esq .. 440 Mr. John Hinton .. 441 Mr. John March ..... ibid . Mr. Thomas Spilsbury .. 442 Mr. Joseph Cooper ... ibid . James Simmons , Esq .... 443 Mr. George Robinson .. 445 Mr. John Baskerville ...
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John Nichols. by the Hon . Robert Boyle , Esq . in the Parish - church of St. James , Westminster , in the Years 1766 , 1767 , of Mr. Hutchinson's system will not fail to pronounce it a Chef d'œuvre ; while the Rationalists will consign ...
John Nichols. by the Hon . Robert Boyle , Esq . in the Parish - church of St. James , Westminster , in the Years 1766 , 1767 , of Mr. Hutchinson's system will not fail to pronounce it a Chef d'œuvre ; while the Rationalists will consign ...
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John Nichols. a similar occasion near forty years before , again addressed him with tenderness on this event : " DEAR SIR , Jan. 18 , 1771 . " I find , by the last papers , that you have lost Mrs. Bowyer . It is very happy for her that ...
John Nichols. a similar occasion near forty years before , again addressed him with tenderness on this event : " DEAR SIR , Jan. 18 , 1771 . " I find , by the last papers , that you have lost Mrs. Bowyer . It is very happy for her that ...
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John Nichols. " The Apology of Benjamin Ben Mordecai to his Friends for embracing Christianity ; in Six Letters to Elisha Levi , Merchant of Amsterdam * . With Notes and Illustrations by the Author and the Editor . Letter I. " 4to ...
John Nichols. " The Apology of Benjamin Ben Mordecai to his Friends for embracing Christianity ; in Six Letters to Elisha Levi , Merchant of Amsterdam * . With Notes and Illustrations by the Author and the Editor . Letter I. " 4to ...
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Page 455 - Wardrobe; and all other my lands, tenements, and hereditaments whatsoever; to have and to hold all and singular the said premises, with their appurtenances, unto the said Susanna Hall, for and during the term of her natural life; and after her decease, to the first son of her body lawfully issuing...
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 83 - Could all our care elude the gloomy grave, Which claims no less the fearful than the brave, For lust of fame I should not vainly dare In fighting fields, nor urge thy soul to war. But since, alas ! ignoble age must come, Disease, and death's inexorable doom, The life, which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe ; Brave though we fall, and honour'd if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give!
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 581 - With regard to the queen's person, a circumstance not to be omitted in writing the history of a female reign, all contemporary authors agree in ascribing to Mary the utmost beauty of countenance and elegance of shape of which the human form is capable.
Page 646 - 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 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 350 - For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call
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.