 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1847 - 550 pagine
...respect and confidence of Johnson than his fathers by their rank and station, we find a pleasant mention of Richard de Bury, Bishop of Durham in the reign of Edward the Third. He was eminent as a scholar, statesman, judge, and divine ; though all these various qualifications... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1847 - 546 pagine
...respect and confidence of Johnson than his fathers by their rank and station, we find a pleasant mention of Richard de Bury, Bishop of Durham in the reign of Edward the Third. He was eminent as a scholar, statesman, judge, and divine ; though all these various qualifications... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1872 - 606 pagine
...authors are silent about it. You may search Boccaccio or our own Chaucer in vain for any allusion to it. Richard de Bury, Bishop of Durham, in the reign of Edward III., wrote a curious essay on the "Love of Books;" but he says not a word about woodcuts. . So much, therefore,... | |
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... with salutes of eggs in that independent state in which they have nothing to fear from decay. Without stopping to say any thing of Langton, the ancestor of the one who was more distinguished by the respect and confidence of Johnson than his fathers... 