 | James Boswell - 1799 - عدد الصفحات: 648
...devoted all his life to it. I asked him whether he knew much of Rolt, and of his work. 'Sir, (said he) I never saw the man, and never read the book. The booksellers wanted a Preface to a Dictionary of Trade and Commeree. I knew very well what such a Dictionary should be, and wrote... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - عدد الصفحات: 640
...devoted all his life to it. I asked him whether he knew much of Rolt, and of his work. ' Sir, (said he) I never saw the man, and never read the book. The booksellers wanted a Preface to a Dictionary of Trade and Commerce. I knew very well what such a Dictionary should be, and wrote... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - عدد الصفحات: 488
...and never read the book. " The bookseller* wanted a preface to a Dictionary of Trade and Commerce. I knew very well what such a dictionary should be, and I wrote a preface accordingly." This may be believed; but the book is a most wretched farrago of articles plundered without acknowledgment,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 372
...life to it—Boswell asked him whether he knew much of Roll, and of his work. " Sir," said he, " I never saw the man, and never read the book. The booksellers wanted a preface to a Dictionary of Trade and Commerce; I knew very well what such a dictionary should "be, and I wrote... | |
 | 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 372
...life to it—Boswell asked him whether lie knew much of Roll, and of his work. " Sir," said he, " I never saw the man, and never read the book. The booksellers wanted a preface to a Dictionary of Trade and Commerce; I knew very well what such a dictionary should be, and I wrote... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 394
...all his life to it. I asked him, whether he knew much of Rolt, and of his work. " Sir, (said he) I never saw the man, and never read the book. The booksellers wanted a Preface to a Dictionary of Trade and Commerce. I knew very well what such a Dictionary should be, and I wrote... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 388
...all his life to it. I asked him, whether he knew much of Rolt, and of his work. " Sir, (said he) I never saw the man, and never read the book. The booksellers wanted a Preface to a Dictionary of Trade and Commerce. I knew very well what such a Dictionary should be, and I wrote... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 514
...man, and never rend the book. The booksellers wanted a Preface to a Dictionary of Trade and Commerce. I knew very well what such a Dictionary should be, and I wrote a Preface accordingly." Rolt, who wrote a great deal for the booksellers, was, as Johnson told me, a singular character. Though... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 508
...all his life to it. I asked him, whether he knew much of Rolt, and of his work. " Sir, (said he) I never saw the man, and never read the book. The booksellers wanted a Preface to a Dictionary of Trade and Commerce. I knew very well what such a Dictionary should be, and I wrote... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 432
...and never read the book. " The booksellers wanted a preface to a Dictionary of Trade and Commerce. I knew very well what such a dictionary should be, and I wrote a preface accordingly." This may be believed; but the book is a most wretched farrago of articles plundered without acknowledgment,... | |
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never saw the man and never read the book.' ' The booksellers wanted a Preface. ... I knew very well what such a dictionary should be, and I wrote a preface accordingly 
