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Page ix
... John was not without his hobby ' Tailpiece - The South - Sea House Headpiece Oxford in the Vacation ' What a place to be in is an old library ' Tailpiece - Oxford in the Vacation • Headpiece - Christ's Hospital five and thirty years ago ...
... John was not without his hobby ' Tailpiece - The South - Sea House Headpiece Oxford in the Vacation ' What a place to be in is an old library ' Tailpiece - Oxford in the Vacation • Headpiece - Christ's Hospital five and thirty years ago ...
Page xvi
... John Lamb , was a barrister's clerk . The lots of barristers ' clerks vary as widely as the habits of their employers . Some make fortunes for themselves ; others only tea for their masters . Their success in life is not wholly ...
... John Lamb , was a barrister's clerk . The lots of barristers ' clerks vary as widely as the habits of their employers . Some make fortunes for themselves ; others only tea for their masters . Their success in life is not wholly ...
Page xvii
... John Lamb were rather those of a private secretary , or confidential upper servant , than of a barrister's clerk , properly so called . He collected his master's dividends -a more gentlemanlike occupation than dunning attornies for fees ...
... John Lamb were rather those of a private secretary , or confidential upper servant , than of a barrister's clerk , properly so called . He collected his master's dividends -a more gentlemanlike occupation than dunning attornies for fees ...
Page xviii
... John had a clerkship ; but in April , 1792 , through the influence probably of Mr Salt , he obtained a place in the Accountant's Office of the East India Company , at whose desks he sat until 1825 , when , to use his own celebrated ...
... John had a clerkship ; but in April , 1792 , through the influence probably of Mr Salt , he obtained a place in the Accountant's Office of the East India Company , at whose desks he sat until 1825 , when , to use his own celebrated ...
Page xix
... John Lamb and his wife , their daughter Mary , an aunt , and Charles , were living huddled together in an obscure lodging in Little Queen Street , Holborn . An exceedingly ugly church now stands upon the site of the houses . Mary Lamb ...
... John Lamb and his wife , their daughter Mary , an aunt , and Charles , were living huddled together in an obscure lodging in Little Queen Street , Holborn . An exceedingly ugly church now stands upon the site of the houses . Mary Lamb ...
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