Refutation of the Mistatements and Calumnies Contained in Mr. Lockhart's Life of Sir Walter Scott, Respecting the Messrs. BallantyneLongman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1838 - 96 páginas |
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Abbotsford accommodation accommodation bills advances affairs amount appears April balance Ballantyne & Co Ballantyne's betwixt bills bills granted bookselling brother Brought forward Cadell Canongate capital stock Carry forward cash cern commencement company's concern connexion Constable's contract copartnership copartnery counter-bills course Cowan creditors DEAR JAMES debit debts due deed discounts doubt drafts drawn Edinburgh Edinburgh Annual fact firm funds Gibson hand Hogarth interest J. G. LOCKHART James Ballan James Ballantyne James's John Ballantyne John's Kelso lantyne liable literary loan Martinmas matter means ment missive letter months mutual discharge never paid pamphlet parties partner payment pecuniary period printer printing printing-house printing-office profits published received respect Royal Bank share Sir Walter Scott Sir Walter's Sir William Forbes stamps statement term of Whitsunday thing tion trade transactions trustees tyne Vidimus Walter Scott's account Whits Whitsunday 1822 whole
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Página 7 - I may have but a minute to speak to you. My dear, be a good man - be virtuous - be religious - be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here.
Página 75 - Before the Fortunes of Nigel issued from the press, Scott had exchanged instruments, and received his bookseller's bills for no less than four ' works of fiction ' — not one of them otherwise described in the deeds of agreement — to be produced in unbroken succession, each of them to fill at least three volumes, but with proper saving clauses as to increase of copy-money in case any of them should run to four.
Página 24 - Then, sir, to turn the flank of Messrs. Constable and Co., and to avenge myself of certain impertinences which, in the vehemence of their Whiggery, they have dared to indulge in towards me...
Página 38 - The plan went on under James's management, just as John had begun it. Under his management also — such was the incredible looseness of it — the counter-bills, meant only for being sent into the market in the event of the primary bills being threatened with dishonour— these instruments of safeguard for Constable against contingent danger were allowed to lie uninquired about in Constable's desk, until they had swelled to a truly monstrous
Página 82 - In writing of the case to myself, he says: "I have a sore grievance in poor Ballantyne's increasing lowness of heart, and I fear he is sinking rapidly into the condition of a religious dreamer. His retirement from Edinburgh was the worst advised scheme in the world. I in vain reminded him, that when our Saviour himself was to be led into temptation, the first thing the Devil thought of was to get him into the wilderness.
Página 42 - James Ballantyne this morning, good honest fellow, with a visage as black as the crook. He hopes no salvation ; has indeed taken measures to stop. It is hard, after having fought such a battle.
Página 21 - all of which I am well convinced you have both the ability and inclination to unite in your own person. The first is that of an editor of a newspaper, which shall contain something of an uniform historical deduction of events distinct from the farrago of detached and unconnected plagiarisms from the London paragraphs of '• The Bun.
Página 19 - Scott, affected by the loss he had sustained, for such he evidently considered which verses were never intended for any eye but that of him to whom they were addressed. Here they are, in all their nakedness, as published by Mr. Lockhart:— " No, John, I will not own the book— I won't, you Picaroon. When next I try St. Grubby's brook, The A of Wa— shall bait the hook, And flat fish bite as soon As if before them they had got The worn-out wriggler, WALTER SCOTT.
Página 24 - Messrs. Constable and Co., and to avenge myself of certain impertinences which, in the vehemence of their Whiggery, they have dared to indulge in towards me, I have prepared to start against them at Whitsunday first the celebrated printer, Ballantyne (who had the honour of meeting you at Ashestiel), in the shape of an Edinburgh publisher, with a long purse* and a sound political creed, not to mention an alliance offensive and defensive with young John Murray of Fleet Street, the most enlightened...
Página 49 - WALTER SCOTT Mr Hogarth will understand, that though the mutual discharge of our accounts respectively cannot be perhaps effectually executed till Whitsunday 1822, yet it is not our purpose to go back on these complicated transactions, being perfectly satisfied with the principles of arrangement above expressed. So that if it should please God that either of us were removed before the term of Whitsunday 1822, the survivors shall not be called to account upon any other principles than those which...