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And even a trick of it is better than none of it. Laughing masters might be as well paid as dancing masters to help on society! "Smiling made Easy" or the "Complete Art of Looking Good-natured" would be as taking titles on book-sellers' shelves as "The Complete Letter-writer" or "Handbook of Behavior."
I think I have persuaded the book-sellers to insert something of Thomson; and if you could give me some information about him, for the life which we have is very scanty, I should be glad. I am, dear Sir, 'Your most affectionate humble servant, 'SAM. JOHNSON. 'May 3, 1777.
Doctor Johnson referred to these books in one of his letters: "There is in the world a set of books which used to be sold by the book-sellers on the bridge, and which I must entreat you to procure me. They are called Burton's books. The title of one is, 'Admirable Curiosities, Rarities, and Wonders in England. They seem very proper to allure backward readers."
I had sent to Vancouver for the grammar-book with which I intended starting Rita's tuition, but it had only arrived, its coming having been delayed on account of the book-sellers not having it in stock and having to fill my requirement from the East, but I had promised Rita, much to her pleasure, that we should start in in earnest the following evening.
In fact, in the study of Tasker Jevons the Canon was weeks behind the rest of his acquaintance. There was hardly a family in Canterbury of any education in which Tasker Jevons was not by this time a household word. The garrison club library had bought him in quantities. And the book-sellers in the High Street displayed him in their windows by the half-dozen.
The reading of fragments has a fascination for the curious mind: you also, I think, must have devoured those casual sheets of forgotten masterpieces in which book-sellers envelop their parcels, and have dignified the whole with an importance which it can never when in circulation have enjoyed.
This book makes money for the book-sellers, and passes over the sea, and prolongs the reputation of the well-known author.
"Shall I post your letters? I know you will be anxious for that one to the book-sellers to go," she added, with a smile. His eyes dropped and he seemed disconcerted for a minute, then he said: "No, no; I'll send it by Jason; I've not written it yet;" and he turned away from her and resumed his pacing to and fro.
Paul's Church-yard, and at their Hall also, which they value at about 150,000l.; some book-sellers being wholly undone, and among others they say my poor Kirton. And Mr. Fayth's, and the roof of the church falling, broke the arch down into the lower church, and so all the goods burned. A very great loss.
In the larger towns there were circulating libraries, and presumably immigrants occasionally brought books with them; but newspaper advertisements suggest that school books, and the like, formed almost the only stock-in-trade of the book-shop; and the mercurial Major Richardson, after agitating the chief book-sellers in Canada on behalf of one of his literary ventures, found that his total sales amounted to barely thirty copies, and even an auction sale at Kingston discovered only one purchaser, who limited his offer to sevenpence halfpenny.
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