 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 828 страници
...illustration of his style: He appeared very ambition* 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 bands that the clerks gave him. On the title-page to " Put Yourself in his Place," Charles Reade thus... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 828 страници
...• He appeared very ambitious to learn to write ; and one of the attorneys got a board knocked np at a window on the top of a staircase; and that was...sat and wrote after copies of court and other hands that the clerks gave him. On the title-page to " Put Yourself in his Place," Charles Reade thus translates... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 824 страници
...one of the attorneys got a board knocked up nt a win,dow4pu. the tpp of a staircase; and that was hie desk, where he sat and wrote after copies of court and other hands that the clerks gave him. On the title-page to " Put Yourself in his Place," Charles Reade thus translates... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1884 - 570 страници
...attorneys got a hoard knocked np at a window on the lop of a stair-case ; and that was his desk, where lie sat and wrote after copies of court and other hands the clerks pave him. He made himself so expert a writer that he took in business, and earned some pence by hackney-writing.... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1894 - 546 страници
...his favor. ExpressHow he ing 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,... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1918 - 398 страници
...Society willing to do him Good. He appeared very ambitious to learn to write ; and one of the Attornies got a Board knocked up at a Window on the Top of a...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
...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 copies of court and other hands the clerks gave him. He made himself so expert a writer that he took... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1841 - 664 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...that he took in business, and earned some pence by hackney writing. And thus, by degrees, he pushed his faculties, and fell to form!?, and, by books that... | |
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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... 
