 Having had from my youth a strong inclination to the study of plants, and all other productions of nature; and having through the course of many years with great labour and expence, gathered together whatever could be procured either in our own or foreign...  General Guide with Plans and Views of the Building - Page 1by British Museum (Natural History) - 1913 - 121 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Great Britain - Law - 1766 - 604 pages
...through the covrfe of many yean, with great labour and expence gathered together whatever could bt procured either in our own or foreign countries, that was rare and curious, did, by a codicil bearing date the twentieth day «/July »'» 1 1-е year of our Lord one thoujand... | |
 | Adam Anderson - Commerce - 1801 - 810 pages
...through the «« courfe of many years, with great labour and expence, gathered together whatever could be *' procured either in our own or foreign countries that was rare and curious, by a codicil, " bearing date the. twentieth of July 1749, (after having exprefTcd his defi-re, that... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1836 - 502 pages
...through the course of many years, with gr>:at labour and expense, gathered together whatever cnuld be procured, either in our own or foreign countries, that was rare and curious, and being fully convinced that nothing tends more to raise our ideas of the power, wisdom, goodness,... | |
 | William Jardine - Birds - 1836 - 384 pages
...having, through the course of many years, with great labour and expense, gathered together whatever could be procured, either in our own or foreign countries, that was rare and curious ; and being fully convinced that nothing tends more to raise our ideas of the power, wisdom, goodness,... | |
 | William Jardine - Pachydermata - 1856 - 380 pages
...having, through the course of many years, with great labour and expense, gathered together whatever could be procured, either in our own or foreign countries, that was rare and curious ; and being fully convinced that nothing tends more to raise our ideas of the power, wisdom, goodness,... | |
 | English literature - 1866 - 612 pages
...through the course of many years, with great labour ' and expence, gathered together whatever could be procured, ' either in our own or foreign countries, that was rare and ' curious,' at a cost, it is said, of 50,0001. In 1749 he had made a codicil to his will, in which he expressed... | |
 | Great Britain - 1766 - 600 pages
...having^ through the conrfe of many years , with great labour and expence gathered together whatever could be procured either in our own or foreign countries^ that was rare and curious, did) by a codicil bearing date the twentieth day of July in the year of our ^ Lord one th ou f and... | |
 | Great Britain - 1903 - 320 pages
...convenient Use of the said Collections and of the Cottonian Library and of the Additions thereto." Sloan's collection, which at the time of his death in 1753...residence, the Manor House, Chelsea, consisted of "books, drawings, manuscripts, prints, medals, and coins, ancient and modern antiquities, seals, cameos and... | |
 | Henry Cole - Art - 1884 - 454 pages
...with great ,860-i873. labour and expence, gathered together whatever could be procured, Selections, either in our own or foreign countries, that was rare and curious," at a cost, it is said, of ,£50,000. In 1749, he had made a codicil to his will, in which he expressed... | |
 | sir Henry Cole - 1884 - 446 pages
...years, with great i86°-'873labour and expence, gathered together whatever could be procured, Sections, either in our own or foreign countries, that was rare and curious," at a cost, it is said, of ^50,000. In 1 749, he had made a codicil to his will, in which he expressed... | |
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