Lives of the Founders of the British Museum: With Notices of Its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570-1870, 2. kötetTrübner, 1870 - 780 oldal |
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... conspicuous Augmentors of the Collection of Antiquities CHAPTER V. THE FOUNDER OF THE GRENVILLE LIBRARY . 608 The Grenvilles and their Influence on the Political Aspect of the Georgian Reigns . - The Public and Literary Life of the ...
... conspicuous Augmentors of the Collection of Antiquities CHAPTER V. THE FOUNDER OF THE GRENVILLE LIBRARY . 608 The Grenvilles and their Influence on the Political Aspect of the Georgian Reigns . - The Public and Literary Life of the ...
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... conspicuously indebted to the liberality of individual benefactors . In a THE PUBLIC degree of which there is elsewhere no example , the British Museum has been gradually built up by the munificence COLLECTORS . of open - handed ...
... conspicuously indebted to the liberality of individual benefactors . In a THE PUBLIC degree of which there is elsewhere no example , the British Museum has been gradually built up by the munificence COLLECTORS . of open - handed ...
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... conspicuous fame as a traveller , as an archæologist , or as a discoverer , has helped , in one way or other , to enrich those collections . They bear their own peculiar testimony to nearly every step which has been taken either in the ...
... conspicuous fame as a traveller , as an archæologist , or as a discoverer , has helped , in one way or other , to enrich those collections . They bear their own peculiar testimony to nearly every step which has been taken either in the ...
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... conspicuous merits which belong to Sir Robert COTTON as a politician of no mean acumen , and as , -in the event , the real Founder of the British Museum , are added the still higher distinctions of an eminently generous spirit and a ...
... conspicuous merits which belong to Sir Robert COTTON as a politician of no mean acumen , and as , -in the event , the real Founder of the British Museum , are added the still higher distinctions of an eminently generous spirit and a ...
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... conspicuous public service . Genealogi- cally , their descent , through Mary WESENHAM , from Robert BRUCE , was their chief boast . Sir Robert was to become , as he grew to manhood , especially proud of it . He rarely missed an ...
... conspicuous public service . Genealogi- cally , their descent , through Mary WESENHAM , from Robert BRUCE , was their chief boast . Sir Robert was to become , as he grew to manhood , especially proud of it . He rarely missed an ...
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acquisition afterwards amongst ancient Antiquities archæological ARUNDEL bequeathed bequest British Museum brought century Chap Chapter Charles Charles TowNELEY CLASSICAL ARCHEOLO coins Collection Collector Committee Conington Cottonian COURTEN death Department Died Duke Earl early EGERTON ELLIS eminent England English famous feet FOUNDERS French Gallery gift GISTS AND EXPLORERS Greek GRENVILLE GROUP OF ARCHEOLO HAMILTON HARLEY Henry honour House hundred James John King King's KNIGHT labours LECTOR LEIAN MSS less letters liberality Library literary London Lord ELGIN Lord SHELBURNE LOVERS AND PUBLIC Lycian manuscripts marbles ment Montagu House monument MUSEUM UNDER SIR Naples Natural History Old Royal Library Oxford PANIZZI Parliament political present Prince Printed Books PUBLIC BENEFAC purchase RECON Royal Society sculpture seqq SHELBURNE Sir Robert COTTON Sir Thomas COTTON Sir William Sir William HAMILTON SLOANE MUSEUM specimens Thomas thousand pounds TION TORS TOWNELEY Trustees vases volumes William COURTEN