 | Richard Robert Madden - 1847 - 362 pagine
...shameth his natural country. I know a merchantman, which shall at this time be nameless, that bought the contents of two noble libraries for forty shillings price : a shame it is to l)e spoken. This stuff hath he occupied instead of grey paper for the space of more than these ten... | |
 | 1925 - 996 pagine
...New College were for days littered with torn manuscript». Bale says he " knew a grocer who bought the contents of two noble libraries for forty shillings...the stead of grey paper by the space of more than to« years past, and yet he hath store enough for as jnany years to come." EM HARTING. At the Bible... | |
 | 1850 - 234 pagine
...shameth his natural country. I know a merchantman, which shall at this time be nameless, that bought the contents of two noble libraries for forty shillings price: a shame it is to be spoken. This stuff huth he occupied instead of grey paper for the space of more than these ten years, and yet he hath... | |
 | George Markham Tweddell - 1852 - 232 pagine
...this time be nameless) that bought the contents of two noble libraries for forty shillings priee : a shame it is to be spoken. This stuff hath he occupied instead of grey paper, by the space of more than these ten years, and yet hath he store enough for... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pagine
...shameth his native country. I know a merchantman (which shall at this time be nameless) that bought the contents of two noble libraries for forty shillings...shame it is to be spoken. This stuff hath he occupied in»te*wi of grey paper, by the space of more than these ten years, and yet hath he store enough for... | |
 | George Lawton - 1853 - 158 pagine
...numbers, but, at times, in ships. I know a merchant (who shall at this time be nameless,) that bought the contents of two noble libraries for forty shillings price. A shame it is to be spoken. This stuff has been occupied instead of grey paper. Our posterity may well curse the wicked fall of our age —... | |
 | William Keddie - 1854 - 400 pagine
...shameth his natural country. I know a merchantman, which shall at this time be nameless, that bought the contents of two noble libraries for forty shillings...spoken ! This stuff hath he occupied in the stead of gray paper, by the space of more than ten years, and yet he hath store enough for as many years to... | |
 | William Gideon Michael Jones Barker - 1854 - 366 pagine
...shillings price. The stuff thereof he hath occupied, instead of gray paper, by the space of more than these ten years ; and yet he hath store enough for as many years to come. Our posterity may well curse this wicked fact of our age, this unreasonable spoil of England's most... | |
 | Thomas M'Crie - 1855 - 530 pagine
...shameth his native country. I know a merchant man (which shall at this tune be nameless) that bought the contents of two noble libraries for forty shillings...shame it is to be spoken. This stuff hath he occupied instead of grey paper by the space of more than these ten years, and yet hath, he store enough for... | |
 | 1856 - 586 pagine
...commonest purposes. " I know," he says, " a merchantman, which shall at this time be nameless, that bought the contents of two noble libraries for forty shillings'...spoken. This stuff hath he occupied in the stead of gray paper by the space of more than these ten years, and yet he hath store enough for as many years... | |
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I know a merchant-man which shall at this time be nameless, that bought the contents of two noble libraries for forty shillings... 
