 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...  The London Magazine - Page 5641826Full view - About this book
 | John Hawkins - Authors, English - 1787 - 636 pages
...got a board knocked ' up at a window on the top of a ftaircafe, and that was his deik, ' where he fat and wrote after copies of court and other hands ' the clerks gave him. He made himfelf fo expert a writer, that ' he took in bufmefs, and earned fome pence by hackney-writ' ing.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 640 pages
...got a board knocked up at a window on ' the top of a ftaircafe, and that was his deflc, where he fat and ' wrote after copies of court and other hands the clerks gave him. ' He made himfelf fo expert a writer, that he took in bufmefs, and ' earned fome pence by hackney-writing. And... | |
 | John Hawkins - 1787 - 652 pages
...he took in bufinefs, and ' earned fome pence by hackney-writing. And thus, by degrees, ' he pufhed his faculties, and fell to forms ; and, by books that • were lent him, became an exquifite entering-clerk : and, by the ' fame courfe of improvement of himfelf, an able counfel, fail... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 642 pages
...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.... | |
 | Sir John Hawkins - Authors, English - 1787 - 634 pages
...got a board knocked up at a window on * the top of a ftaircafe, and that was his defk, where he fat and ' wrote after copies of court and 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.... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Art - 1708 - 586 pages
...a board knocked up at the window, on the top of a ftair-cafe ; and that was his defk, where he fat and wrote after copies of court and other hands the clerks gave him. He made himfelf fo expert a writer, that he took in bufmefs, and earned iome pence by hackney writing. And... | |
 | British periodicals - 1798 - 576 pages
...that he took in bufinefs, and earned fome pence by hackney writing. And thus, by degrees, he pufhed his faculties, and fell to forms, and, by books that were lent him, became an exquifite entering clerk ; and, by the fame courfe of improvement of himfelf, an able counfel, iirft... | |
 | John Elihu Hall - Law - 1810 - 530 pages
...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 after copies of court...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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ethics - 1818 - 352 pages
...one of the altornies 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,...a writer that he took in business, and earned some peace by hackney-writing. And thus by degrees he pushed his faculties and fell to forms, and by books... | |
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