A biographical history of England, adapted to a methodical catalogue of engraved British heads1824 |
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... copies of the editions of 1775 and 1779 interleaved with blank paper , which he forwarded to the most distinguished Collectors of English Portraits , requesting their as- sistance in the undertaking , by giving him information of such ...
... copies of the editions of 1775 and 1779 interleaved with blank paper , which he forwarded to the most distinguished Collectors of English Portraits , requesting their as- sistance in the undertaking , by giving him information of such ...
Σελίδα ii
... copy of Clarendon's " History of the Rebellion , " collected at an expense of nearly ten thousand pounds , by the late Alexander Hendras Sutherland , esq . Previously to the publication of the first Edition of this Work in 1769 , five ...
... copy of Clarendon's " History of the Rebellion , " collected at an expense of nearly ten thousand pounds , by the late Alexander Hendras Sutherland , esq . Previously to the publication of the first Edition of this Work in 1769 , five ...
Σελίδα iii
... copy of a book ornamented with portraits could be found in an unmutilated state : and books of this description rose in price to five times their original value . Holland's " " Heroologia , " Anderson's " Genealogical History of the ...
... copy of a book ornamented with portraits could be found in an unmutilated state : and books of this description rose in price to five times their original value . Holland's " " Heroologia , " Anderson's " Genealogical History of the ...
Σελίδα xxiii
... copied from a catalogue of Smith's hand - writ- ing . It will perhaps be objected , that I have given a place to mean engravings , and prints of obscure persons : but whoever studies for a useful collection should make it numerous ; if ...
... copied from a catalogue of Smith's hand - writ- ing . It will perhaps be objected , that I have given a place to mean engravings , and prints of obscure persons : but whoever studies for a useful collection should make it numerous ; if ...
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... Copied from Montfaucon's " Mo- numens de la Monarchie Françoise , " t . i . p . 55. * In Dr. Ducarel's " Anglo - Gallic Coins , " plate 6 , No. 75. † WILLIAM the CONQUEROR , attended by his guards , and conferring a grant of lands on ...
... Copied from Montfaucon's " Mo- numens de la Monarchie Françoise , " t . i . p . 55. * In Dr. Ducarel's " Anglo - Gallic Coins , " plate 6 , No. 75. † WILLIAM the CONQUEROR , attended by his guards , and conferring a grant of lands on ...
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Σελίδα 183 - Whose adorning let it not be that outWard adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel ; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Σελίδα 121 - When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things...
Σελίδα 184 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.
Σελίδα 122 - This figure that thou here seest put, It was for gentle SHAKESPEARE cut, Wherein the graver had a strife With nature, to out-do the life : O could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass, as he hath hit His face ; the print would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass. But since he cannot, reader, look Not on his picture, but his book.
Σελίδα 159 - Monday came, all was well. Tuesday came, he not sick. Wednesday came, and still he was well ; with which his impertinent wife did much twit him in the teeth. Thursday came, and dinner was ended, he very well : he went down to the water-side and took a pair of oars to go to some buildings he was in hand with in Puddle Dock. Being in the middle of the Thames, he presently fell down, only saying, ' An impost, an impost,
Σελίδα 112 - March, 1538-9, he was advanced to the dignity of a Baron, by the title of Lord St.
Σελίδα 54 - The Man in the Moon, or a Discourse of a Voyage thither, by Domingo Gonsales, l638,"Svo.
Σελίδα 167 - Bull's music was good ; and he remarks, in reference to some of them, " that they may be heard by a lover of music, with as little emotion as the clapper of a mill, or the rumbling of a post-chaise.
Σελίδα 156 - Lambeth, with a very good report of the neighbourhood, especially of the poor, unto whom he •was very charitable. He was a person that in horary questions (especially thefts) was very judicious and fortunate ; so also in sicknesses, which indeed was his masterpiece. In resolving questions about marriage he had good success ; in other questions very moderate.
Σελίδα 319 - It is hard to say whether his person, his understanding, or his courage, was the most extraordinary ; as the fair, the learned, and the brave, held him in equal admiration. But the same man was wise, and capricious ; redressed wrongs, and quarrelled for punctilios; hated bigotry in religion, and was himself a bigot to philosophy.