 That Sir Walter Scott be requested to accept of his furniture, plate, linens, paintings, library, and curiosities of every description, as the best means the creditors have of expressing their very high sense of his most honourable conduct, and in grateful...  Libraries and founders of libraries - Pagina 93di Edward Edwards - 1864Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Walter Scott - 1860 - 656 pagine
...requested to accept of his furniture, plate, paintings, library, and curiosities of every description, as the best means the creditors have of expressing...honourable conduct, and in grateful acknowledgment for the unparalleled and most * When the late Earl of Dudley heard of this circumstance, he exclaimed... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1867 - 696 pagine
...to accept of his furniture, plate, linen, paintings, library, and curiosities of every description, as the best means the creditors have of expressing...honourable conduct, and in grateful acknowledgment for the unparalleled and most successful exertions he has made, and continues to make for them." And... | |
 | Edward Edwards - 1869 - 690 pagine
...persons concerned in the trusteeship of Sir Walter's property (after the commercial failures of 1826), " as the best means the creditors have of expressing...unparalleled and most successful exertions he has made, nnd continues to make, for them." Among the printed books at Abbotsford are ballads which SCOTT collected... | |
 | Robert Shelton Mackenzie - 1871 - 520 pagine
...to accept of his furniture, plate, linens, paintings, library, and curiosities of every description, as the best means the creditors have of expressing their very high sense of his most honorable conduct, and in grateful acknowledgment for the unparalleled and most successful exertions... | |
 | James Frothingham Hunnewell - 1871 - 564 pagine
...restored to him by his creditors, with the words, honorable to them and to him, stating this to be "the best means the creditors have of expressing their very high sense of his most honorable conduct, and in grateful acknowledgment of the unparalleled and most successful exertions... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart, Henry Irwin Jenkinson - 1873 - 428 pagine
...to accept of his furniture, plate< linens, paintings, library, and curiosities of every description, as the best means the creditors have of expressing...honourable conduct, and in grateful acknowledgment for the unparalleled and most successful exertions he has made, and continues to make, for them." Sir... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 462 pagine
...to accept of his furniture, plate, linen, paintings, library, and curiosities of every description, as the best means the creditors have of expressing...honourable conduct, and in grateful acknowledgment for the unparalleled and most successful exertions he has made and continues to make for them.' " Soon... | |
 | James Colston - 1881 - 154 pagine
...to accept of his furniture, plate, linens, paintings, library, and curiosities of every description, as the best means the creditors have of expressing...honourable conduct, and in grateful acknowledgment for the unparalleled and most successful exertions he has made, and continues to make, for them.' Sir... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1882 - 384 pagine
...to accept of his furniture, plate, linens, paintings, library, and curiosities of every description, as the best means the creditors have of expressing...honourable conduct, and in grateful acknowledgment for the unparalleled and most successful exertions he has made, and continues to make, for them." Sir... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1890 - 582 pagine
...to accept of his furniture, plate, linen, paintings, library, and curiosities of every description, as the best means the creditors have of expressing...honourable conduct, and in grateful acknowledgment for the unparalleled and most successful exertions he has made, and continues to make, for them.' Commenting... | |
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