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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... SHELBURNE to be second only ATHAM himself . PUBLIC BENEFAC- TORS . BEGINNING OF LORD SHEL- BURNE'S CAREER IN MENT . d SHELBURNE's first speech in Parliament - the first , st , that attracted general notice - was made in support PARLIA ...
... SHELBURNE to be second only ATHAM himself . PUBLIC BENEFAC- TORS . BEGINNING OF LORD SHEL- BURNE'S CAREER IN MENT . d SHELBURNE's first speech in Parliament - the first , st , that attracted general notice - was made in support PARLIA ...
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... Lord SHELBURNE'S loss was felt in the House of Lords . PUBLIC BENKFAC- TORS . But it was in the Commons that the Ministry were now feeblest . ' I don't see how they can meet Parliament , ' said CHESTERFIELD . ' In the Commons they have ...
... Lord SHELBURNE'S loss was felt in the House of Lords . PUBLIC BENKFAC- TORS . But it was in the Commons that the Ministry were now feeblest . ' I don't see how they can meet Parliament , ' said CHESTERFIELD . ' In the Commons they have ...
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... Lord SHELBURNE was dis- BURNE IN d from his first Secretaryship in October , 1768. His ssal led to CHATHAM's resignation . SHELBURNE became minent and powerful leader of the Opposition , an of special dislike to a large force of ...
... Lord SHELBURNE was dis- BURNE IN d from his first Secretaryship in October , 1768. His ssal led to CHATHAM's resignation . SHELBURNE became minent and powerful leader of the Opposition , an of special dislike to a large force of ...
426. oldal
... Lord SHELBURNE's library profited by his long release- ment from the cares of office . He bestowed much of his leisure upon its enrichment , and especially upon the acqui- sition of manuscript political literature . In 1770 , he was ...
... Lord SHELBURNE's library profited by his long release- ment from the cares of office . He bestowed much of his leisure upon its enrichment , and especially upon the acqui- sition of manuscript political literature . In 1770 , he was ...
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... Lord SHEL- s retirement in 1768 from political office , consisted vast historical Collections of Bishop White ... Shelburne Library into the first long private repositories of historical lore . To d to study them was to prove to its ...
... Lord SHEL- s retirement in 1768 from political office , consisted vast historical Collections of Bishop White ... Shelburne Library into the first long private repositories of historical lore . To d to study them was to prove to its ...
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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.