| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 Seiten
...excellent character, much respected in the town, secretary to the assembly, and a pretty poet. Keimer made verses too, but very indifferently. He could...probably requiring all the letter, no one could help him. I endeavored to put his press (which be had not yet used, and of which he understood nothing) into... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 556 Seiten
...excellent character, much respected in the town, secretary to the assembly, and a pretty poet. Keimer made verses too, but very indifferently. He could...there being no copy, but one pair of cases, and the elt'gy probably requiring all the letter, no one could help him. I endeavored to put his press (which... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 Seiten
...novice. Bradford left me with Keimer, who was greatly surprized when I told him who the old man was. copy, but one pair of cases, and the Elegy probably requiring all the letter, no one could help him. I endeavoured to put his press (which he had not yet used and of which he understood nothing) into... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1830 - 452 Seiten
...him, employed in printing an Elegy on a young poet of the place, who had recently died. " Keimer," says he, " made verses too, but very indifferently....of a work entitled ' A System of Divinity,' by the Reverend WILLIAM DAV\, AB, a clergyman of the church of England. Mr. Davy was born in 1743, near Chudleigh... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1830 - 440 Seiten
...him, employed in printing an Elegy on a young poet of the place, who had recently died. " Keimer," says he, " made verses too, but very indifferently....of a work entitled ' A System of Divinity,' by the Reverend WILLIAM DAVY, AB, a clergyman of the church of England. Mr. Davy was born in 1743, near Chudleigh... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1830 - 484 Seiten
...too, but very indifferently. He could not be said to write them, for his method was to compose them iu the types directly out of his head ; there being no...of a work entitled ' A System of Divinity,' by the Reverend WILLIAM DAVY, AB, a clergyman of the church of England. Mr. Davy was born in 1743, near Chudleigh... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1830 - 464 Seiten
...but very indifferently. He could not be said to write them, for his method was to compose them in thP types directly out of his head ;. there being no copy,...him." But perhaps the most extraordinary instance oi literary industry and perseverance on record is atforded us in the history of a work entitled •... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 Seiten
...verses too, but very indifferently. He could not be said to write them, for his method was to compote them in the types directly out of his head ; there...probably requiring all the letter, no one could help him. I endeavoured to put his press (which he had not yet used, and of which he understood nothing) into... | |
| 1840 - 298 Seiten
...to him, employed in printing an elegy on a young poet of the place who had recently died. " Keimer," says he, " made verses too, but very indifferently....of a work entitled " A System of Divinity," by the Reverend WILLIAM DAVY, AB, a clergyman of the Church of England. Mr. Davy was born in 1743, near Chudleigh... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 Seiten
...excellent characlfer, much respected in the town, secretary to the Assembly, and a pretty poet Keimer made verses too, but very, indifferently. He could...probably requiring all the letter, no one could help him. I endeavoured to put his press (which he had not yet used, and of which he understood nothing,) into... | |
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