 | 1814 - 510 sider
...too with a want of circumspection which may be readily supposed from- such a mode of book-keeping. His losses on this occasion roused his latent talents: with a good classical education he united a fine taste for drawing, which he now began again to cultivate; and encouraged by his -friends,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 510 sider
...this too with a want of circumspection which may be readily supposed from such a mode of book-keeping. His losses on this occasion roused his latent talents : with a good classical education he united a fine taste for drawing. which he now began again to cultivate ; and encouraged by his friends,... | |
 | Francis Grose - 1823 - 342 sider
...too, with a want of circumspection which may be readily supposed from such a mode of book-keeping. His losses on this occasion roused his latent talents : with a good ' /• . £ • 4.. "»i••*•! classical education he united a fine taste for drawing, which he... | |
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... he was so careless as to have for some time (as he used pleasantly to tell) only two books of accounts, viz. his right and left hand pockets. In the one he received, and from the other paid ; and this too with a want of circumspection which may be... 