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" I stepped into my closet, tore off the top of Mr. Caslon's specimen, and produced it to him as yours, brought with me from Birmingham ; saying, I had been examining it, since he spoke to me, and could not for my life perceive the disproportion he mentioned,... "
Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprizing Biographical ... - Page 447
by John Nichols - 1812
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The Private Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin ...: pt.I. Letters on ...

Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 542 pages
...Caslou's ' specimen, and produced it to him as yours, brought \\ith me from Birmingham, saying I had been examining it since he spoke to me, and could not for...readily undertook it, and went over the several founts, showing me everywhere what he thought instances of that disproportion ; and declared, that he could...
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Private Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 1

Benjamin Franklin - 1833 - 490 pages
...Caslon's* specimen, and produced it to him as yours, brought with me from Birmingham, saying I had been examining it since he spoke to me, and could not for my severance he overcame all obstacles, and in 1756 published an edition of Virgil in quarto, which was...
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Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 1

Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 pages
...had been examining it, since he spoke to me, am! could not for my life perceive the disprcipirtion ' K QFuU` D showing me every where what he thought instances of that disproportion; and declared, that he could...
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Fifty Years' Recollections of an Old Bookseller: Consisting of Anecdotes ...

William West - 1837 - 236 pages
...Caslon's specimen, and produced it to him as yours, brought with me from Birmingham, saying, " I had been examining it since he spoke to me, and could not for...disproportion he mentioned, desiring him to point out to me." He readily undertook it, and went over the several founts, shewing me every where what...
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Fifty years' recollections of an old bookseller [signed W.W. Followed by ...

William West - 1837 - 256 pages
...produced it to hioi as yours, ^ brought with me from Birmingham, saying, " I had been ex-* amining it since he spoke to me, and could not for my life...disproportion he mentioned, desiring him to point out to me." He readily "undertook it, and went over the several founts, shewing me every where what...
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The works of Benjamin Franklin: with notes and a life of the ..., Volume 7

Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 604 pages
...Caslon's specimen, and produced it to him as yours, brought with me from Birmingham ; saying, I had been examining it, since he spoke to me, and could not...readily undertook it, and went over the several founts, showing me everywhere what he to the last degree provoking, that I cannot get even bread by it? I must...
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The Irish Quarterly Review, Volume 8, Part 1

1858 - 906 pages
...Caslon's specimen, and produced it to him as yours, brought with me from Birmingham, saving, " 1 had been examining it since he spoke to me, and could not for...undertook it, and went over the several founts, shewing me everywhere what he thought instances of that disproportion, and declared, " that he could not then...
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The Irish Quarterly Review, Volume 8

1858 - 1930 pages
...produced it to him as jours, brought with me from Birmingham, saying, " 1 had been examining it since be spoke to me, and could not for my life perceive the...out to me." He readily undertook it, and went over tbe several founts, shewing me (vtrvnhere what he thought instances of that disproportion, and declared,...
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Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 1

Benjamin Franklin - 1859 - 680 pages
...Caslon's specimen, and produced it to him as yours, brought with me from Birmingham ; saying, I had been examining it, since he. spoke to me, and could not...readily undertook it, and went over the several founts, showing me every where what he thought instances of that disproportion; and declared, that he could...
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Life of Benjamin Franklin, Written by Himself, Volume 1

Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 812 pages
...Caslon's specimen, and produced it to him as yours, brought with me from Birmingham ; saying, I had been examining it, since he spoke to me, and could not...readily undertook it, and went over the several founts, showing me everywhere what he thought instances of that disproportion ; and declared, that he could...
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