Markup on Views and Estimates of Sba Budget for Fiscal Year 2011: Hearing Before the Committee on Small Business

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1844 edition. Excerpt: ...whereas it was his earnest and repeated request, as appears by his letters, which I have still by me. lt is false that the views of interest began to show themselves in me to this disinterested gentleman. My resentment at Sir Thomas Hanmer s behaviour began on the following occasion. A bookseller in London, of the best reputation, had wrote me word that Sir Thomas Hanmer had been with him, to propose his printing an edition of Shakspeare, on the following conditions: --Of its being pompously printed with cuts (as it afterwards was at Oxford), at the expense of the said bookseller, who, besides, should pay one hundred guineas, or some such sum, to a friend of his (Sir Thomas s), who had transcribed the glossary for him. But the bookseller, understanding that he had made use of many of my notes, and that I knew nothing of the project, thought fit to send me this account. On which I wrote to Sir Thomas, upbraiding him with his behaviour, and demanding out of his hands all the letters 1 had written to him on the subject, which he unwillingly complied with, after cavilling about the right of property in those letters, for which he had (he said) paid the postage! When the bookseller would not deal with him upon those terms, he applied to the University of Oxford, and was at the expense of his purse in procuring cuts for his edition, and at the expense of his reputation in employing a number of my emendations on the text without my knowledge or consent; and this behaviour was what occasioned Mr. Pope s perpetuating the memory of the Oxford edition of Shakspeare in the Dunciad. W. WARBURTON. Gloucester, Jan. 29th, 176l. The reader, Sir Henry Bunbury well remarks, will observe...