 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1884 - 560 страници
...hands the clerks gave him. He made himself so expert a writer that he took in business, and earned some pence by hackney-writing. And thus by degrees he pushed...to forms, and, by books that were lent him, became ah exquisite entering clerk; and. by the same course of improvement of himself, an able counsel, first... | |
 | Roger North - 1890 - 456 страници
...hands the clerks gave him. He made himself so expert a writer that he took in business and earned some pence by hackney-writing. And thus by degrees he pushed...were lent him, became an exquisite entering clerk ; and by the same course of improvement of himself, an able counsel first in special pleading then... | |
 | Roger North, Augustus Jessopp - 1890 - 490 страници
...hands the clerks gave him. He made himself so expert a writer that he took in business and earned some pence by hackney-writing. And thus by degrees he pushed...were lent him, became an exquisite entering clerk ; and by the same course of improvement of himself, an able counsel first in special pleading then... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1897 - 552 страници
...hands the clerks gave him. He made himself so expert a writer that he took in business, and earned some pence by hackney-writing. And thus by degrees he pushed...were lent him became an exquisite entering clerk' (The Lives of the Norths, 1890, i. 293-4). In this way he managed to acquire sufficient means to become... | |
 | John Hutchinson - 1902 - 316 страници
...Clement's Inn caused a desk to be fixed for him on the top of a staircase, and gave him papers to copy. " Thus by degrees he pushed his faculties, and fell to forms and . . . became an exquisite entering clerk." He was called to the Bar on 25 Nov. 1664, and two yearn... | |
 | John Hutchinson - 1902 - 306 страници
...Clement's Inn caused a desk to be fixed for him on the top of a staircase, and gave him papers to copy. " Thus by degrees he pushed his faculties, and fell to forms and . . . became an exquisite entering clerk." He was called to the Bar on 25 Nov. 1664, and two years... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1918 - 398 страници
...Hands the Clerks gave him. He made himself so expert a Writer that he took in Business, and earned some Pence by Hackney-writing. And thus, by degrees, he pushed his Faculties, and fell to 20 Forms, and, by Books that were lent him, became an exquisite entering Clerk ; and, by the same course... | |
 | Sir William Searle Holdsworth - 1924 - 758 страници
...made himself so expert a writer that he took in business and earned some pence by hackney writing. And thus by degrees he pushed his faculties and fell...were lent him, became an exquisite entering clerk ; and by the same course of improvement with himself, an able counsel, first in special pleading then... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 552 страници
...hands the clerks gave him. He made himself so expert a writer that he took in business, and earned some pence by hackney-writing. And thus by degrees he pushed...were lent him, became an exquisite entering clerk ; and. by the same course of improvement of himself, an able counsel, first in special pleading, then... | |
 | 1825 - 938 страници
...the clerks gave him. He made himself so expert a writer, that he took in business, and earned some pence by hackney-writing. And thus by degrees, he...were lent him, became an exquisite entering clerk ; and, by the tame course of improvement of himself, an able counsel, first in a special pleading,... | |
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... got a board knocked up at a window on the top of a staircase; and that was his desk where he sat and wrote after copies of court and other hands the clerks gave him. He made himself so expert a writer that he took in business and earned some pence... 
