Lives of the Founders of the British Museum: With Notices of Its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570-1870, 2. kötetTrübner and Company, 1884 - 780 oldal |
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... Arundel . - The Consolations of Connoisseurship . - Vicissitudes of the Arundel Museum . - The gifts of Henry Howard ... Househunting . - The Removal of the Sloane Museum from Chelsea.— Montagu House , and its History . - The Early ...
... Arundel . - The Consolations of Connoisseurship . - Vicissitudes of the Arundel Museum . - The gifts of Henry Howard ... Househunting . - The Removal of the Sloane Museum from Chelsea.— Montagu House , and its History . - The Early ...
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... Arundel House , in the Strand , it was exposed , more than once , to loss by petty thefts . But when , by another descendant , the injury was repaired , and the still choice collection given - at the earnest entreaty of another of our ...
... Arundel House , in the Strand , it was exposed , more than once , to loss by petty thefts . But when , by another descendant , the injury was repaired , and the still choice collection given - at the earnest entreaty of another of our ...
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... ARUNDEL , LIBRARIES . · There were many projects for making Sir Robert FOR ... ARUNDEL ; and that some particulars of the plan were narrated -- to a country correspondent - by Sir Hans SLOANE , almost fifty 7 ... House 144 EARLY COLLECTORS .
... ARUNDEL , LIBRARIES . · There were many projects for making Sir Robert FOR ... ARUNDEL ; and that some particulars of the plan were narrated -- to a country correspondent - by Sir Hans SLOANE , almost fifty 7 ... House 144 EARLY COLLECTORS .
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... Arundel , to the next heir , but he kept WALES . the library and found one of the chief pleasures of his Muniments remaining term of life in liberally augmenting it . HENRY'S House first care , after his purchase , was to have a careful ...
... Arundel , to the next heir , but he kept WALES . the library and found one of the chief pleasures of his Muniments remaining term of life in liberally augmenting it . HENRY'S House first care , after his purchase , was to have a careful ...
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... Arundel House in London , until he had paid £ 4000 for it to the Earl of NOTTINGHAM . AT COURT , Lord ARUNDEL made his first appearance at Court in ARUNDEL 1605. In May , 1611 , he was created a Knight of the Garter . Thirteen years of ...
... Arundel House in London , until he had paid £ 4000 for it to the Earl of NOTTINGHAM . AT COURT , Lord ARUNDEL made his first appearance at Court in ARUNDEL 1605. In May , 1611 , he was created a Knight of the Garter . Thirteen years of ...
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acquisition afterwards already amongst antiquities archæology ARUNDEL bequeathed British Museum brought BURNEY Chap Chapter Charles Charles TowNELEY CLASSICAL ARCHEOLO coins Collection Collector Conington Corresp correspondence Cottonian Library Council Court COURTEN CRACHERODE death DELIAN MSS Died Duke Earl early EGERTON Elgin Marbles ELLIS eminent England English famous FOUNDERS GEORGE THE THIRD gift GISTS AND EXPLORERS Greek HAMILTON HARLEY Henry honour hundred James King King's labours LECTOR LEIAN MSS less letters liberality Librarian literary London Lord ELGIN Lord SHELBURNE LOVERS AND PUBLIC Manuscripts marbles ment Montagu House MUSEUM UNDER SIR Naples Natural History OXFORD PANIZZI Parliament parliamentary political Prince Printed Books PUBLIC BENEFAC purchase Queen Royal Society sculpture seqq SHELBURNE SIR H Sir Robert COTTON Sir Thomas COTTON Sir William Sir William HAMILTON SLOANE MUSEUM SLOANE'S SOMERSET Thomas thousand pounds tion TORS Towneley treasures Trustees volumes William COURTEN Воок
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685. oldal - The present capacity of taking effect in possession, if the possession were to become vacant, and not the certainty that the possession will become vacant before the estate limited in remainder determines, universally distinguishes a vested remainder from one that is contingent.
510. oldal - If a man spends lavishly on his library, you call him mad - a bibliomaniac. But you never call any one a horsemaniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of people ruining themselves by their books.
406. oldal - Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion, girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity...
655. oldal - The estates are not given to any particular children 'by name, but to such children as shall attain the age of twenty-one years ; until they have attained that age, no one completely answers the description which the testator has given of those who are to be devisees under his will, and therefore, there is no person in whom the estates can vest.
750. oldal - A. (a male) for life, and after his death to such of his children as shall attain the age of twenty-one years, or indeed in the сане of a devise or bequest simply to the children of A.
406. oldal - I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history; And, questionless, here in this open court, Which now lies naked to the injuries Of stormy weather, some men lie...
141. oldal - MD's letter? one of these oddcome-shortlies. This is a week old, you see, and no farther - yet. Mr Harley desired I would dine with him again today ; but I refused him, for I fell out with him yesterday, and will not see him again till he makes me amends ; and so I go to bed.
688. oldal - proceeds upon the supposition that, though the ulterior devise is in terms not to take effect in possession until the decease of the prior devisee, if tenant for life, yet that, in point of fact, it is to be read as a limitation of a remainder to take effect in every event which removes the prior estate out of the way.
129. oldal - tis a soul like thine : A soul supreme, in each hard instance tried, Above all pain, all passion, and all pride, The rage of power, the blast of public breath, The lust of lucre, and the dread of death.