 Britain was a plentiful and perpetual emporium of learned authors ; and men went thither as to a market. This drew to the place a mighty trade ; the rather because the shops were spacious, and the learned gladly resorted to them, where they seldom failed...  The Monthly Magazine - Page 721796Full view - About this book
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1815 - 852 pages
...«cllers in the reign of Charles II. says, " Little Britain was a plentiful and perpetual emporinm of learned authors, and men went thither as to a market. This drew a mighty trade, the rather because the shops were spacious, and the learned gladly resorted to them,... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1822 - 392 pages
...Little Britain was a plentiful and perpetual emporium of learned authors ; aud men went thither as a market. This drew to the place a mighty trade ; the rather because the shops were spacious, and the learned gladly resorted to them, where they seldom failed... | |
 | 1822 - 384 pages
...Little Britain was a plentiful and perpetual emporium of learned authors ; and men went thither as a market. This drew to the place a mighty trade ; the rather because the shops were spacious, and the learned gladly resorted to them, where they seldom failed... | |
 | Roger North - 1826 - 496 pages
...between that time and ours.* Then Little trade!* '" g Britain was a plentiful and perpetual emporium of learned authors; and men went thither as to a market....This drew to the place a mighty trade; the rather because the shops were spacious, and the learned gladly resorted to them, where they seldom failed... | |
 | Charles Henry Hartshorne - 1829 - 590 pages
...had no small loss of him. Little Britain was, in the middle of the last century, a plentiful emporium of learned authors ; and men went thither as to a...This drew to the place a mighty trade, the rather because the shops were spacious, and the learned gladly resorted to them, where they seldom failed... | |
 | Charles Henry Hartshorne - 1829 - 594 pages
...had no small loss of him. Little Britain was, in the middle of the last century, a plentiful emporium of learned authors ; and men went thither as to a...This drew to the place a mighty trade, the rather because the shops were spacious, and the learned gladly resorted to them, where they seldom failed... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 874 pages
...had no small loss of him. Little Britain was, in the middle of the last century, a plentiful emporium of learned authors ; and men went thither as to a...This drew to the place a mighty trade, the rather because the shops were spacious, and the learned gladly resorted to them, where they seldom failed... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1842 - 790 pages
...trade of books, between that time and ours. Then, Little-Britain was a plentiful and perpetual emporium of learned authors ; and men went thither as to a...This drew to the place a mighty trade ; the rather because the shops were spacious, and the teamed gladly resorted to them, where they seldom failed to... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1843 - 442 pages
...inhabited by booksellers and publishers. It was, Roger North tells us, " a plentiful and perpetual emporium of learned authors ; and men went thither as to a market." "This," he continues, "drew to the place a mighty trade; the rather because the shops were spacious, and the... | |
 | Henry Mead - 1846 - 254 pages
...in his generation :— " LITTLE BRITAIN was, in the middle of the last century, a plentiful emporium of learned authors ; and men went thither as to a...This drew to the place a mighty trade, the rather because the shops were spacious, and the learned gladly resorted to them, where they seldom failed... | |
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