Librarian, Being an Account of Scarce, Valuable, and Useful English Books, Manuscript Libraries, Public Records, المجلد 2

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1809
 

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الصفحة 97 - IMITATIONS OF ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY HANS HOLBEIN, in the Collection of His Majesty, for the Portraits of Illustrious Persons of the Court of Henry VIII. With Biographical Tracts. Published by John Chamberlaine, Keeper of the King's Drawings and Medals, and FSA
الصفحة 41 - the King might be informed of his right of escheat or wardship. They also show whether the tenant was attainted of treason, or was an alien ; in either of which cases they were seized into the King's hands ; they likewise show the quantity quality, and value of the lands of which each tenant died seized,
الصفحة 285 - a journey from Scanderoon to Aleppo, and over the Desart to Bagdad and Bussora; a Voyage from Bussora to Bombay, and along the Western Coast of India ; a Voyage from Bombay to Mocha and Suez in the Red Sea, and a Journey from Suez to Cairo and Rosetta, in Egypt. By the late Abraham Parsons, Esq. Consul
الصفحة 260 - The practicability of the whole scheme, without loss to any man, or infringement of any property, was at that time demonstrated, and all material objections fully weighed and answered : the only, and as it happened, insurmountable difficulty remaining was the obstinate averseness of the
الصفحة 260 - as so many" rays should proceed to all principal parts of the City ; the building to be contrived after the form of the Roman Forum, with double porticoes. Many streets also to radiate upon the Bridge ; the streets of the first and second magnitude to be carried on as straight as possible, and to centre
الصفحة 97 - bought by, or for, the King. There are eighty-nine of them, a few of which are duplicates. A great part are exceedingly fine, and in one respect preferable to his finished pictures, as they are drawn in a bold and free manner, and though they have little more than the outlines, being drawn with chalk, upon paper
الصفحة 140 - not leave it till I had completed it: here it is finished at one sitting." And immediately he shewed him the ode, which places the British lyric poetry above that of any other nation.
الصفحة 267 - was originally instead of painting in the manner it is now performed, to have beautified the inside of the Cupola with the more durable ornament of Mosaic work as is nobly executed in the Cupola of St. Peter's in Rome. For this purpose he had projected to have procured from Italy four of the most eminent
الصفحة 67 - Arthur, but was common in all the ages of Chivalry. The proclaiming a great tournament (probably with some peculiar solemnities) was called " holding a round table." Dugdale tells us that the great Baron Roger de Mortimer "having procured the honour of Knighthood to be conferred on his three sons by King Edward
الصفحة 259 - of eight ways, by uniting the halls of the twelve chief companies, into one regular square annexed to Guildhall; and by making a commodious Quay on the whole bank of the river, from Blackfriars to the Tower. In

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