 | Sir John Hawkins - Authors, English - 1787 - 634 pages
...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 ftaircafe, and that was his...other hands the clerks gave him. ' He made himfelf ib expert a writer, that he took in bufinefs, and • earned fome pence by hackney -writing. And thus,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 642 pages
...the attornies got a board knocked up at a window on ' the top of a fhircafe, and that was his dclk, where he fat and • wrote after copies of court and other hands the clerks gave him. • He made himfclf fo expert a writer, that he took in bufinefs, and ' earned Come pence by hackney -writing.... | |
 | John Hawkins - 1787 - 652 pages
...attornies got a board knocked up at a window on • the top of a ftaircafe, and that was his deft;, where he fat and ' wrote after copies of court and other hands the clerks garc him. ' He made himfelf fo expert a writer, that he took in bufinefs, and ' earned fome pence by... | |
 | John Hawkins - Authors, English - 1787 - 632 pages
...got a board knocked up at a window on * the top of a ftaircafe, and diat was his deflt, where he firt and ' wrote after copies of court and other hands the clerks gave him. 1 He made himfclf fo expert a writer, that he took in bufinefs, and ' earned fome pence by hackney.writing.... | |
 | British periodicals - 1798 - 576 pages
...to write; and one of the attornies got a board knocked up at the window, on the top of a (lair-cafe; and that was his defk, where he fat and wrote? after copies of court-«nd other hands the clerks gave him. He made himfelf fo expert a writer, that he took in bufinefs,... | |
 | John Elihu Hall - Law - 1810 - 530 pages
...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 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 by hackney writing. And... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ethics - 1818 - 352 pages
...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 peace by hackney-writing. And... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pages
...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 by hackney writing. And... | |
 | Books - 1820 - 404 pages
...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 by hackney writing. And... | |
 | Books - 1820 - 406 pages
...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 by hackney writing. And... | |
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... 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 by hackney-writing. 
