They are called the King's Pamphlets; and in value, I believe, the whole world could not parallel them. If you were to take all the collections of works on the Civil War, of which I have ever heard notice, I believe you would not get a set of works so... A biographical sketch of sir Anthony Panizzi - Página 42por Robert Cowtan - 1873 - 87 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Robert Cowtan - 1872 - 444 páginas
...Carlyle particularly mentioned the Thomason collection of tracts ; he remarks, — " They are called the King's Pamphlets ; and in value, I believe, the whole...believe you would not get a set of works so valuable as those." The entire evidence of this distinguished man is very interesting, and will well repay an attentive... | |
| Richard Herne Shepherd, Charles Norris Williamson - 1881 - 452 páginas
...Commonwealth) '• in the Museum ; a great many of them were given by George III. They are called the King's Pamphlets ; and in value, I believe, the whole...believe you would not get a set of works so valuable as those. I was extremely desirous to get all tho benefit I could from them ; and in spite of every obstacle,... | |
| Richard Herne Shepherd, Charles Norris Williamson - 1881 - 454 páginas
...Commonwealth) '' in the Museum ; a great many of them were given by George III. They are called the King's Pamphlets ; and in value, I believe, the whole...believe you would not get a set of works so valuable HA those. I was extremely desirous to get all the benefit I could from them ; and in spite of every... | |
| William Howie Wylie - 1881 - 436 páginas
...Tracts, as furnishing splendid materials for history. " They are called the King's pamphlets," he said, " and in value, I believe, the whole world could not...believe you would not get a set of works so valuable as those." Mr Robert Cowtan, one of the assistant librarians at the Museum, in a volume relating to the... | |
| William Howie Wylie - 1881 - 444 páginas
...Tracts, as furnishing splendid materials for history. " They are called the King's pamphlets," he said, " and in value, I believe, the whole world could not...believe you would not get a set of works so valuable as those." Mr Robert Cowtan, one of the assistant librarians at the Museum, in a volume relating to the... | |
| British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books. Thomason Collection - 1908 - 932 páginas
...the British Museum in February 1849, Carlyle described the Thomason Tracts thus: "They are called the King's Pamphlets, and in value I believe the whole world could not parallel them. I consider them to be the most valuable set of documents connected with English history; greatly preferable... | |
| Henry Charles Shelley - 1911 - 512 páginas
...signaled out the Thomason collection of tracts for unstinted eulogy. " They are called," he said, " the King's Pamphlets ; and in value, I believe, the whole...believe you would not get a set of works so valuable as those. ' ' How that tribute would have warmed the heart of the unremitting George Thomason! And he... | |
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