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" The giving a bookseller his price for his books has this advantage : he that will do so, shall have the refusal of whatsoever comes to his hand, and so by that means get many things, which, otherwise, he never should have seen : so it is in giving a bawd... "
Table Talk: Being the Discourses of John Selden, Esq., Or His Sense of ... - Page 21
by John Selden - 1786 - 163 pages
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Table Talk: Being the Discourses of John Selden

John Selden - 1689 - 196 pages
...Arguments will they use to persuade them to follow their Books while they are young ? IX Books. Authors THE giving a Bookseller his Price for his Books has...whatsoever comes to his hand, and so by that means get many Books, things, which otherwise he never should have Authors seen- S0 »tis in giving a Bawd her Price....
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Table Talk: Being the Discourses

John Selden - 1786 - 190 pages
...they use to persuade them to fbllof/ their bocks while they are young. I.' THE giving a bookseller jus price for his books has this advantage; he that will do so, shall tave the refusal of whatsoever comes to his hand, and so by that menus get ma ny things which otherwise...
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Memoirs of the First Forty-five Years of the Life of James Lackington, the ...

James Lackington - 1791 - 366 pages
...increafe their numbers. In Selden'i Table Talk is the following odd paflage : '1 The giving a bookfeller his price for his books has «' this advantage ; he that will do fo, fliall have the " refufal of whatfoever comes to his hand, and fo " by that means get many things...
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Memoirs of the Forty-five First Years of the Life of James Lackington ...

James Lackington - 1794 - 346 pages
...increafe their numbers. In Selden's Table Talk is the following oddipaffagei '* The giving a bookfeller his price for his " books has this advantage ; he that will do fol.fliall " have th& refufal of whatfoever comes to his hand, " and fo by that means get many things...
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Seldeniana, or The table-talk of John Selden

John Selden - 1818 - 230 pages
...arguments will they use to persuade them to follow their books while they are young? BOOKS, AUTHORS. 1. THE giving a bookseller his price for his books has...should have seen. So it is in giving a bawd her price. 2. In buying books or other commodities, it is not always the best way to bid half so much as the seller...
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The Table Talk of John Selden

John Selden - 1818 - 678 pages
...arguments will they use to persuade them to follow their books while they are young ? BOOKS, AUTHORS. 1. THE giving a bookseller his price for his books has...that will do so, shall have the refusal of whatsoever conies to his hand, and so by that means get many things, which otherwise he never should have seen....
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Essays, Moral and Entertaining

Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1819 - 378 pages
...arguments will they use to persuade them to follow their boob; while they are young ? BOOKS, AUTHORS. 1. The giving a bookseller his price for his books has...have the refusal of whatsoever comes to his hand, aud so by that means get many things, which, otherwise, he never should have seen : so it is in giving...
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Selden's table talk

John Selden - 1821 - 170 pages
...arguments will they use to persuade them to follow their books while they are young ? BOOKS, AUTHORS. 1. The giving a bookseller his price for his books has...should have seen : so it is in giving a bawd her price. 2. In buying books or other commodities, it is not always the best way to bid half so much as the seller...
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The British Prose Writers: Sheldon's table talk. Sir W. Blackstone's ...

1821 - 328 pages
...arguments will they use to persuade them to follow their books while they are young ? BOOKS, AUTHORS. 1. The giving a bookseller his price for his books has...which, otherwise, he never should have seen : so it is ill giving a bawd her price. 2. In baying books or other commodities, it is not always the best way...
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Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing ..., Volume 18

1830 - 368 pages
...obtained, as well as increase their numbers. In Selden's Table Talk is the following odd passage : " The giving a bookseller his price for his books has...things which otherwise he never should have seen." He adds, " So it is in giving a bawd her own price." But I hope he did not mean to compare the booksellers...
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