 | 1818 - 384 oldal
...thirty thousand shades of various forms and colours, several hundred large mirrors, girandoles, nud clocks. Some of the latter were very curious, richly...machines of every art and science, but he knew none. He sometimes gave a dinner to ten or twelve persons, sitting at their ease in a carriage drawn by elephants.... | |
 | 1818 - 728 oldal
...figures in continual movement, and playijig tunes every hour; two of these clocks cost him 30,000/.,— Without taste or judgment, he was extremely solicitous...disposed, that a wooden cuckoo clock was placed close to a superb-time-piece which cost the price of a diadem ; and a valuable landscape of Claude Lorraine suspended... | |
 | 1818 - 762 oldal
...these docks cost him thirty thousand pounds. Without taste or judgment, he wai extremely solicitons to possess all that was elegant and rare; he had instruments and machines of every art and science, hut he knew none ; and his muséum was so ridiculously disposed, that a wooden euckuo clock was placed... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1819 - 872 oldal
...horses, 1,500 double barrel guns, seventeen hundred superb lustres, thirty thousand shades, of various forms and colours ; several hundred large mirrors,...a wooden cuckoo clock was placed close to a superb time-piece which cost the price * For an account of his splendid hunting parties; see Asiatic Journal,... | |
 | 1819 - 838 oldal
...horses, 1 ,500 double barrel guns, seventeen hundred superb lustres, thirty thousand shades, of various forms and colours; several hundred large mirrors,...a wooden cuckoo clock was placed close to a superb time-piece which cost the price • For an account of his splendid hunting parties; see Asiatic Journal,... | |
 | 1819 - 554 oldal
...figures in continual movement, and playing tunes every hour; two of these clocks cost him 30,000/. — Without taste or judgment, he was extremely solicitous...a wooden cuckoo clock was placed close to a superb time-piece which cost the price of a diadem ; while a valuable landscape ot' Claude Lorraine was suspended... | |
 | Daniel Johnson - 1822 - 286 oldal
...of these " clocks cost him thirty thousand pounds. " Without tiste or judgement he was ex" tremely solicitous to possess all that was " elegant and rare;...science but he " knew none; and his museum was so ridicu" lously disposed that a wooden cuckoo clock " was placed close to a superb time-piece " which... | |
 | James Forbes - 1834 - 578 oldal
...doublebarrel guns, seventeen hundred superb lustres, thirty thousand shades of various form and colour; several hundred large mirrors, girandoles, and clocks;...he knew none ; and his museum was so ridiculously displayed, that a wooden cuckoo clock was placed close to a superb time-piece which cost the price... | |
 | James Forbes - 1834 - 712 oldal
...doublebarrel guns, seventeen hundred superb lustres, thirty thousand shades of various form and colour ; several hundred large mirrors, girandoles, and clocks...he knew none ; and his museum was so ridiculously displayed, that a wooden cuckoo clock was placed close to a superb time-piece which cost the price... | |
 | 1851 - 506 oldal
...figures in continual movement, and playing tunes every hour ; two of these clocks cost him 30,000/. Without taste or judgment, he was extremely solicitous...instruments and machines of every art and science, but be knew none ; and his museum was so ridiculously disposed, that a wooden cuckoo clock was placed close... | |
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... several hundred large mirrors, girandoles, and clocks; some of the latter were very curious, richly set with jewels, having figures in continual movement, and playing tunes every hour; two of these clocks cost him thirty thousand pounds. Without taste... 
