This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 Excerpt: ...(" I am afraid of this gunpowder Percy though he be dead,") however, since he is no longer of this world, I will venture to utter the word, although I do so at the risk of causing him to turn in his coffin. Simon Tetchy had been--a tradesman; but his trade being that of a printseller in an extensive way, it led him ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 Excerpt: ...(" I am afraid of this gunpowder Percy though he be dead,") however, since he is no longer of this world, I will venture to utter the word, although I do so at the risk of causing him to turn in his coffin. Simon Tetchy had been--a tradesman; but his trade being that of a printseller in an extensive way, it led him into an intimacy with most of the eminent artists and virtuosi of his time, and generally introduced him to a higher grade of society than shopkeepers of many other descriptions can aspire to. For a man tempered as he was, and one whose mind was not sufficiently ballasted with good sense, (as may be inferred from his character, ) this was perhaps an unlucky circumstance: it placed him in a false position. Being a shopkeeper, he was not, in one particular acceptation of the term, a gentleman; and as the occasional associate of gentlemen, he was above being looked upon as a tradesman. He reminded one, in his way, of Moliere's Monsieur Jourdain: he was not a print-seZ/er j he was only so generous as to make presents of fine engravings to his friends and the public, whilst the public and his friends were so liberal as to make him presents of money in return for them. He never alluded to his business except through some such mollifying circumlocution as " the particular occupation in which I happen to be engaged;" he called his shop an office, his customers clients, his clerk a secretary, his shopmen his deputies, and his errand-boy a messenger. By degrees he grew rich, and more than in proportion with his wealth his self-importance increased. At his outset in the business, in which he succeeded his uncle, his spacious wiudow exhibited a large number of choice engravings, and you walked from the street directly into his shop. Gradua...
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