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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... Cotton . - His Political Writings and Political Persecutions . - Sources and Growth of the Cottonian Library . - The Successors of Sir Robert Cotton . - History of the Cottonian Library , until its union with the Manuscript Library of ...
... Cotton . - His Political Writings and Political Persecutions . - Sources and Growth of the Cottonian Library . - The Successors of Sir Robert Cotton . - History of the Cottonian Library , until its union with the Manuscript Library of ...
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... COTTON are too great not to mention , in particular , that from the liberal use of his Library sprang ( chiefly ) most of the learned works of his time , for ever highly to be valued . The great men of that age constantly resorted to ...
... COTTON are too great not to mention , in particular , that from the liberal use of his Library sprang ( chiefly ) most of the learned works of his time , for ever highly to be valued . The great men of that age constantly resorted to ...
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... COTTON LIBRARY . " ( T. Carte to Sir Thomas Hanmer , Speaker of the House of Commons ; Hanmer Cor- Parliament had previously accepted the gift of the Cottonian Library , at the hands of Sir John COTTON , third in descent from its ...
... COTTON LIBRARY . " ( T. Carte to Sir Thomas Hanmer , Speaker of the House of Commons ; Hanmer Cor- Parliament had previously accepted the gift of the Cottonian Library , at the hands of Sir John COTTON , third in descent from its ...
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... Library of COTTON ; but its literary value , as all students of our history and litera- ture know , is ... COTTON , COURTEN , and SLOANE , among the virtual or eventual co - founders of the British Museum . THE OLD ROYAL LIBRARY , formed ...
... Library of COTTON ; but its literary value , as all students of our history and litera- ture know , is ... COTTON , COURTEN , and SLOANE , among the virtual or eventual co - founders of the British Museum . THE OLD ROYAL LIBRARY , formed ...
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... COTTON , who was not only his con- temporary but his friend . OF LORD ARUNDEL As the Royal Library was , in a certain degree , a Public THE MSS . Collection before the foundation of the Museum , so also was the Arundelian Library of ...
... COTTON , who was not only his con- temporary but his friend . OF LORD ARUNDEL As the Royal Library was , in a certain degree , a Public THE MSS . Collection before the foundation of the Museum , so also was the Arundelian Library 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.