 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 566 страници
...society willing to do him good. He appeared very ambitious to learn to write ; and one of the attorneys got a board knocked up at a window on the top of a stair-case ; and that was his desk, where ho sat and wrote after copies of court and other hands the clerks gave him. He made himself so expert... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1856 - 864 страници
...interest in his favor. Expressing an eager ambition to learn to write, one of the attorneys of the Inn got a board knocked up at a window on the top of a staircase. This was his desk, and, sitting here, he not only learned the running hand of the time, but court hand,... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1864 - 358 страници
...society willing . to do him good. He appeared very ambitious to learn to write ; and one of the attorneys got a board knocked up at a window on the top of a staircase ; and that was his desk, j where he sat and wrote after copies of court and other hands the clerks gave him. He made himself... | |
 | Edward Foss - 1864 - 432 страници
...society willing to do him good. He appeared very ambitious to learn to write ; and one of the attorneys got a board knocked up at a window on the top of a staircase. . . He made himself so expert a writer that he took in business, and earned a few pence by hackney-writing.... | |
 | Edward Foss - 1864 - 436 страници
...society willing to do him good. He appeared very ambitious to learn to write ; and one of the attorneys got a board knocked up at a window on the top of a staircase. . . He made himself so expert a writer that he took in business, and earned a few pence by hackney-writing.... | |
 | John Timbs - 1873 - 170 страници
...Society willing to do him good. He appeared very ambitious to learn to write ; and one of the attorneys got a board knocked up at a window on the top of a...staircase, and that was his desk, where he sat and wrote often copies of court and other hands the clerks gave him. He made himself so expert a writer \ that... | |
 | Howard Paul, John Timbs, Percy Fitzgerald - 1873 - 456 страници
...Society willing to do him good. He appeared very ambitious to learn to write ; and one of the attorneys got a board knocked up at a window on the top of a...staircase, and that was his desk, where he sat and wrote often copies of court and other hands the clerks gave him. He made himself so expert a writer that... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1875 - 474 страници
...society willing to do him good. He appeared very ambitious to learn to write, and one of the attorneys got a board knocked up at a window on the top of a...thus by degrees he pushed his faculties and fell to fo:ms, and by books that were lent him became an exquisite entering clerk; and by the same course of... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1881 - 402 страници
...interest in his favor. Expressing an eager ambition to learn to write, one of the attorneys of the Inn got a board knocked up at a window on the top of a staircase. This was his desk, and, sitting here, he not only learned the running hand of the time, but court hand,... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 828 страници
...illustration of his style : • He appeared very ambitious to learn to write ; and one of the attorneys got a board knocked up at a window on the top of a...where he sat and wrote after copies of court and other bandit that the clerks gave him. On the title-page to " Put Yourself in his Place," Charles Beade thus... | |
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He appeared very ambitious to learn to write ; and one of the attorneys got a board knocked up at a window on the top of a stair-case ; and that was his desk, where he sat and wrote after copies of court and other hands the clerks gave him. He made himself... 
