 | Leslie Stephen - 1897 - 552 страници
...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...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
...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...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
...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...that he took in business and earned some pence by hackney writing. And thus by degrees he pushed his faculties and fell to forms, and, by books that... | |
 | 1825 - 938 страници
...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...him, became an exquisite entering clerk ; and, by the tame course of improvement of himself, an able counsel, first in a special pleading, then at large.... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1841 - 664 страници
...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...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 attornies 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... 
