 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1780 - 590 pages
...number was then comparatively finall. To prove the paucity of reader;, it may be fufficient to ren-.ark, that the nation had been fatisfied, from 1623 to 1664,...The fale of thirteen hundred copies in two years, in opposition to fo muck recent enmity, and to л ilyle of verification new to all and difgufting to many,... | |
 | 1780 - 596 pages
...comparatively fmall. To prove the paucity of reader;, it may be fufficicnt to remark, that the taation had been fatisfied, from 1623 to 1664, that is, forty-one...The fale of thirteen hundred copies in two years, in opposition to fo much recent enmity, and to a flyle of verification new to all and difgufting to many,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 498 pages
...accomplimment, and who buy the numerous products of modern typography, the number was then comparatively fmall. To prove the paucity of readers, it may be fufficient...1664, that is, forty-one years, with only two editions qf the works of 2OI Shakfpeare, which probably did not together make one thoufand copies. • The fale... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 494 pages
...the paucity of readers, it may be fufficient to r^nr.rk, that the nation had been fatisfied, fir.m 1623 to 1664, that is, forty-one years, with only two editions of the works of Shakfpeare, which probably did not together make one thoufand copies. The fale of thirteen hundred... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 478 pages
...accomplinhment, and who buy the numerous products of modern typography, the number was then comparatively fma-11. To prove the paucity of readers, it may be fufficient...the nation had been fatisfied, from 1623 to 1664, *hat isj forty-one years, hh>•orily two .editions; of the works of , .which probably did wot together... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 pages
...accomplifhment, and who buy the numerous produ&s of modern typography, the number was then comparatively fmall. To prove the paucity of readers, it may be fufficient...forty-one years, with only two editions of the works of Shakfpeare, which probably did not together make one thoufand copies. The fale of thirteen hundred... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...accomplifhment, and who buy the numerous products of modern typography, the number was then comparatively fmall. To prove the paucity of readers, it may be fufficient...to remark, that the nation had been fatisfied from i623 to t664, that is, forty-one years, with only two editions of the works of Shakfpeare, which probably... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1790 - 508 pages
...accomplifhment, an.d who buy the numerous products of modern typography, the number was then comparatively fmall. To prove the paucity of readers, it may be fufficient...forty-one years, with only two editions of the works of Shakfpeare, which probably did not together make one thoufand copies. The fale of thirteen hundred... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...accomplifhment, and who buy the numerous products of modern typography, the number was then comparatively fmall. To prove the paucity of readers, it may be fufficient...forty-one years, with only two editions of the works of Shakfpeare, which probably did not together make one thoufand copies. The fale of thirteen hundred... | |
 | 1802 - 700 pages
...books was not in Milton's age • what it is at prefcnt ; the nation had • been fatisfied from 1613 to 1664, that • is, forty-one years, with only two • editions of the works of Shakfpeare, • which probably did not together 4 make one thoufand copies. The fele • of thirteen... | |
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... read for pleasure or accomplishment, and who buy the numerous products of modern typography, the number was then comparatively small. To prove the paucity of readers, it may be sufficient to remark, that the nation had been satisfied from 1623 to... 
