 Warm in his friendships as in his politicks, a convivial, cheerful companion, and unalterable in the cut and colour of his coat, he uniformly pursued one great object, fair dealing, and will survive in the list of booksellers the most eminent for being...  Bookbinders and Their Craft - Page 35by Sarah Treverbian Prideaux - 1903 - 298 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Walker - Gentleman's magazine (London, England) - 1811 - 638 pages
...friendships as in his politics, a convivial, chearful companion, and unalterable in the cut and colour of hit coat, he uniformly pursued one great object, FAIR...for being adventurous and scientific, by the name of honut Tom Payne. Feb. 10. At his apartments in the British Museum, aged about eighty-three, Charles... | |
 | John Nichols - Authors, English - 1812 - 628 pages
...to bring up two sons and two daughters with credit, and to assist some relations who wanted his aid. Warm in his friendships as in his politicks, a convivial,...adventurous and scientific, by the name of honest Tom Payne. The Author of " The Pursuits of Literature," who is an excellent appreciate of character, calls him... | |
 | John Nichols - Authors, English - 1812 - 568 pages
...two sons and two daughters with credit, and to assist some relations who wanted his aid. Warm in Ms friendships as in his politicks, a convivial, cheerful...adventurous and scientific, by the name of honest Tom Payne. The Author of " The Pursuits of Literature," who is an excellent appreciator of character, calls him... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - Bibliography - 1817 - 606 pages
...aged 82. ' Warm in his friendships as in his politicks, (say the pages of the work just referred to) a convivial, cheerful companion, and unalterable in...colour of his coat, he uniformly pursued one great object—fair dealing—and will survive in the list of booksellers, the most eminent for being adventurous... | |
 | Midlands (England) - 1884 - 88 pages
...whom, as a bookseller, learning is under obligations.' And the writer already referred to, says, ' warm in his friendships as in his politicks, a convivial,...adventurous and scientific by the name of honest Tom Payne.' The bibliographical notice of him in Dr. Dibdin's ' Decameron ' is accompanied by an excellent portrait... | |
 | Arthur Lee Humphreys - Booksellers and bookselling - 1893 - 122 pages
...buyers of books. Of ' Honest Tom' we are told that he was ' warm in his friendships as in his politics, a convivial cheerful companion, and unalterable in...cut and colour of his coat, he uniformly pursued one object, fair dealing!' No doubt John Hatchard was proud to be the right hand man of such an one, and... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Great Britain - 1895 - 478 pages
...married John Payne, of the firm of Payne & Foss. Payne was ' warm in his friendships and politics, a convivial, cheerful companion, and unalterable in the cut and colour of his coat,' and was universally known as ' honest Tom Payne.' All the copperplates in Gough's edition of Camden's... | |
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