 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1914 - 606 páginas
...to a market. This drew to the place a mighty trade; the rather because the shops were spacious, and the learned gladly resorted to them, where they seldom...bookish knowledge, the greatest wits were pleased to converse.1 One of the chief of these Little Britain booksellers was Robert Scot, whom North describes... | |
 | 1911 - 858 páginas
...to a market. This drew to the place a mighty trade; the rather because the shops were spacious, and the learned gladly resorted to them, where they seldom...with whom, for the sake of bookish knowledge, the gre-itest "wits were pleased to converse. And we may judge the time as well spent there, as (in latter... | |
 | Roger North - 1890 - 392 páginas
...curious letter from Evelyn to Lord Clarendon. (Evelyn's Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 172.) gladly'resorted to them, where they seldom failed to meet with agreeable...as well spent there, as (in latter days) either in tavern or coffee-house ; though the latter hath carried off the spare hours of most people. But now... | |
 | 1822 - 390 páginas
...as a market. This drew to the place a mighty trade ; the rather because the shops were spacious, and the learned gladly resorted to them, where they seldom...as well spent there, as (in latter days) either in tavern or coffee-house ; though the latter hath carried off the spare hours of most people. But now... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1908 - 406 páginas
...to a market This drew to the place a mighty trade; the rather because the shops were spacious, and the learned gladly resorted to them, where they seldom...bookish knowledge, the greatest wits were pleased to converse1. One of the chief of these Little Britain booksellers was Robert Scot, whom North describes... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1822 - 636 páginas
...as a market. This drew to the place a mighty trade ; the rather because the shops were spacious, and the learned gladly resorted to them, where they seldom...conversation. And the booksellers themselves were knowing and conversable men, with whom, for the sake of bookish knowledge, the greatest wits were pleased to converse.... | |
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Britain was a plentiful and perpetual emporium of learned authors ; and men went thither as to a market. This drew to the place a mighty trade ; the rather because the shops were spacious, and the learned gladly resorted to them, where they seldom failed... 
