 | Thomas Carlyle - 1839 - 412 ページ
...Backgammon-board. How my Prime Minister was appointed is of less moment to me than How my House Servant was hired. In these days, ten ordinary Histories of...Booksellers. For example, I would fain know the History of Scotland : who can tell it me ? ' Robertson,' cry innumerable voices ; ' Robertson against the world.'... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1845 - 594 ページ
...Backgammon-board. How my Prime Minister was appointed is of less moment to me than How my House Servant was hired. In these days, ten ordinary Histories of...Booksellers. For example, I would fain know the History of Scotland ; who can tell it me ? " Ro« bertson," cry innumerable voices ; "Robertson against the world."... | |
 | Henry Mead - 1846 - 254 ページ
...Backgammon-board. How my Prime Minister was appointed is of less moment to me than How my House Servant was hired. In these days, ten ordinary Histories of...Booksellers. For example, I would fain know the History of Scotland : who cantellitmc? " Robertson," cry innumerable voices ; "Robert'son against the world."... | |
 | 1852 - 590 ページ
...Backgammon-board. How my Prime Minister was appointed is of less moment to me than How my House Servant was hired. In these days, ten ordinary Histories of...Booksellers. For example, I would fain know the History of Scotland ; who can tell it me 1 " Robertson," cry innumerable voices ; "Robertson against the world."... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1853 - 120 ページ
...Backgammon-board. How my Prime Minister was. appointed is of less moment to me than How my House Servant was hired. In these days, ten ordinary Histories of...Booksellers. For example, I would fain know the History of Scotland : who can tell it me ? " Robertson," say innumerable voices ; " Robertson against the world."... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1857 - 604 ページ
...Backeammon-board. How my Prime Minister was appointed is of less moment to me than How my House Servant was hired. In these days, ten ordinary Histories of...Booksellers. For example, I would fain know the History of Scotland ; who can tell it me ? " Robertson," cry innumerable voices ; "Robertson against the world."... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1860 - 384 ページ
...Backgammon-board. How my Prime Minister was appointed is of less moment to me than How my House Servant was hired. In these days, ten ordinary Histories of...the tenth part of one good History of Booksellers. Miscellanies, vol. iii., p. 36. THE DAILY NEWSPAPER EDITOR. Consider his leading articles : what they... | |
 | Frederick Martin - 1865 - 256 ページ
...descendants. Their genealogy is really full of interest, and exemplifies the truth of Carlyle's saying: " In these days, ten ordinary histories of kings and...the tenth part of one good history of booksellers." The mode of conducting the business of banking, in the latter part of the eighteenth century, was very... | |
 | Frederick Martin - 1865 - 240 ページ
...descendants. Their genealogy is really full of interest, and exemplifies the truth of Carlyle's saying : " In these days, ten ordinary histories of kings and...the tenth part of one good history of booksellers." The mode of conducting the business of banking, in the latter part of the eighteenth century, was very... | |
 | Charles Warren Stoddard - 1873 - 422 ページ
...8vo, over 500 pages, with frontispiece and numerous Portraits and Illustrations, cloth extra, Js, 6d. "In these days, ten ordinary Histories of Kings and...the tenth part of one good History of Booksellers." — THOMAS CARLYLE. Booth's Epigrams : Ancient and Modern, Humorous, Witty, Satirical, Moral, and Panegyrical.... | |
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In these days, ten ordinary Histories of Kings and Courtiers were well exchanged against the tenth part of one good History of Booksellers. 
