 | Francis Grose - 1782 - 370 pages
...gains, and so deeply shameth his natural country. I know " says he" a merchantman (which shall at this time be nameless) that bought the contents of two...shillings price: a shame it is to be spoken ! This stuff hath he occupied instead of grey paper, by the space of more than these ten years, and yet he hath... | |
 | 1803 - 598 pages
...gains, and 1 so deeply shameth his natural country. I know (says he) 'a merchantman (which shall at this time be nameless) that bought the contents of two...shillings price : a shame it is to be spoken ! This stuff hath he occupied instead of grey-paper, by the space of more than these tea years, and yet he hath... | |
 | Dennis Taaffe - 1810 - 590 pages
...lamentable account of what he himself was an eyewitness to, " I know a merchant, who shall at this time be nameless, that bought the contents of two noble libraries for forty shillings a-piece; a shame it is to be spoken. This stuff has been occupied instead of grey-paper by the space... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1811 - 828 pages
...with such ungodly gains, and shaincth his Datural country. I know a merchant man, which shall at this time be nameless, that bought the contents of two...shillings price; a shame it is to be spoken ! This stuff hath he occupied in the stead of grey paper, by the space of more than ten years, and yet he hath store... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1811 - 844 pages
...with such ungodly gains, and shanicth his natural country. I know a merchant man, which shall at this time be nameless, that bought the contents of two noble libraries for forty shillin price; a shame it is to be spoken ! This stuff hath he occupied in the stea of grey paper,... | |
 | 1812 - 532 pages
...ungodly gains, and so deeply shameth his native country. I know a merchant man (which shall at this time be nameless) that bought the contents of two...shillings price ; a shame it is to be spoken. This stuff hath he occupied instead of gray paper by the space of more than these ten years, and yet hath hestore... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1819 - 476 pages
...book -binders, " not in small numbers, but at times in ships. I " know a merchant, (who shall, at this time, be " nameless), that bought the contents of...true, " — and utter it with heaviness, — that neither the " Britains, under the Romans and Saxons ; nor yet " the English people under the Danes... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1824 - 546 pages
...over it as a shame and reproach to the nation. Addressing King Edward upon the subject, he says, " I judge this to be true, and utter it with heaviness, that neither the Britons, under the Romans and Saxons, nor yet the English people, under the Danes and Normans,... | |
 | Henry Soames - 1826 - 682 pages
...book-binders, not in small number, but at times whole ships full. I know a merchant-man (which shall at this time be nameless) that bought the contents of two...shillings price, a shame it is to be spoken. This stuff hath he occupied instead of grey paper, by the space of more than these ten years, and yet he hath... | |
 | William Eusebius Andrews - 1826 - 446 pages
...lamentable account of what he himself was an eye witness to, "I " " know a merchant (who shall at this time be nameless) that bought " the contents of two noble libraries for forty shillings a piece; a shame " it is to be spoken. This stuff has been used instead of grey paper by " the space... | |
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I know a merchant-man which shall at this time be nameless, that bought the contents of two noble libraries for forty shillings... 
