An Historical and Topographical Description of Chelsea, and Its Environs: Interspersed with Biographical Anecdotes of Illustrious and Eminent Persons who Have Resided in Chelsea During the Three Preceding Centuries, المجلد 1T. Faulkner, 1829 |
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... paint the pannels of the state coach , which he executed with great taste ; he also painted , for the Queen , a ceiling at Buckingham House , in the antique style ; and among other avocations , he was employed to clean and repair the ...
... paint the pannels of the state coach , which he executed with great taste ; he also painted , for the Queen , a ceiling at Buckingham House , in the antique style ; and among other avocations , he was employed to clean and repair the ...
الصفحة 84
... painted but arranged and characterised them in the Latin language in the Linnean manner ; and to these he added ... paint- ings still exist with his heir , in four quarto volumes . He further collected , personally , about eight hundred ...
... painted but arranged and characterised them in the Latin language in the Linnean manner ; and to these he added ... paint- ings still exist with his heir , in four quarto volumes . He further collected , personally , about eight hundred ...
الصفحة 85
... painted in oil very successfully , which the various pictures that adorned his house abundantly testified . In his manners , he was amiable , mild , fluent , and instructive , eminently just and pious , and in the latter part of his ...
... painted in oil very successfully , which the various pictures that adorned his house abundantly testified . In his manners , he was amiable , mild , fluent , and instructive , eminently just and pious , and in the latter part of his ...
الصفحة 165
... painted in almost all his productions ; and when an agreeable company could fix him upon a subject of useful literature , nobody shone to greater advantage ; he seemed to be that Memmius whom Lucretius speaks of : - Quem tu , Dea ...
... painted in almost all his productions ; and when an agreeable company could fix him upon a subject of useful literature , nobody shone to greater advantage ; he seemed to be that Memmius whom Lucretius speaks of : - Quem tu , Dea ...
الصفحة 191
... painted by Garrard , has pourtrayed the face and character with an extraordinary degree of fidelity . He had been latterly greatly afflicted with the gout , and he died after a short illness , May 19 , 1820 , aged 81 . Here is a small ...
... painted by Garrard , has pourtrayed the face and character with an extraordinary degree of fidelity . He had been latterly greatly afflicted with the gout , and he died after a short illness , May 19 , 1820 , aged 81 . Here is a small ...
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الصفحة 87 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of* some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
الصفحة 313 - Alas, Sir, these are all only struggles for happiness. When I first entered Ranelagh, it gave an expansion and gay sensation to my mind, such as I never experienced anywhere else. But, as Xerxes wept when he viewed his immense army, and considered that not one of that great multitude would be alive a hundred years afterwards, so it went to my heart to consider that there was not one in all that brilliant circle, that was not afraid to go home and think ; but that the thoughts of each individual there,...
الصفحة 209 - A curious Herbal, containing five hundred cuts of the most useful plants which are now used in the practice of physic, engraved on folio copper plûtes, afler drawings taken from the life, by Elizabeth Blackwell. To which is added, a short description of the plants, and their common uses in physic, ? vols, folio.
الصفحة 187 - His greatest success was in characters of lower life, which he improved from the delight he took in his observations of that kind in the real world. In songs and particular dances too of humour he had no competitor.
الصفحة 4 - The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked : who can know it ? I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
الصفحة 351 - For upwards of eighty-six years I have kept my accounts exactly : I will not attempt it any longer, being satisfied with the continual conviction, that I save all- I can, and give all I can ; that is, all I have.
الصفحة 206 - we have hitherto seen serene and quiet times under our three last sovereigns, but I must now warn you to prepare for clouds and storms. Factions arise on every side, and threaten the tranquillity of your native country. But, whatever happen, do you faithfully honour and obey your prince, and adhere to the crown. I charge you never to forsake the crown, though it should hang upon a bush.
الصفحة 188 - In his political principles he was, in the words of sir Richard Steele, a " whig up to the head and ears ;" and so strictly was he attached to the interests of the house of Hanover, that he never let slip any occasion that presented itself of demonstrating his sentiments in that respect.
الصفحة 87 - I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow; when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes; I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
الصفحة 42 - Ye living men, come view the ground, "Where you must shortly lie. 2 Princes, this clay must be your bed, In spite of all your towers! The tall, the wise, the reverend head Must lie as low as ours.