 and has made me one of the trustees of his museum, which is to be offered for twenty thousand pounds. . . . He valued it at fourscore thousand pounds, and so would anybody who loves hippopotamuses, sharks with one ear, and spiders as big as geese ! You...  The British Museum Library - Page 32by Gertrude Burford Rawlings - 1916 - 231 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1833 - 452 pages
...the Royal Academies of Petersburgh, Berlin, Paris, and Madrid. He valued it at fourscore thousand, and so would anybody who loves hippopotamuses, sharks with one ear, and spiders as big as geese ! It is a rent charge to keep the foetuses in spirits! You may believe that those who think money the... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1833 - 488 pages
...of Petersburgh, Berlin, Paris, and Madrid. He valued it at fourscore thousand, and so would any body who loves hippopotamuses, sharks with one ear, and spiders as big as geese ! It is a rent charge to keep the fetuses in spirits ! You may believe that those who think money the... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 522 pages
...besides his own buoks; and to purchase the Harleian manuscripts, build a house for at fourscore thousand; and so would anybody who loves hippopotamuses, sharks with one ear, and spiders as big as geese! It is a rent-charge, to keep the foetuses in spirits! You may believe that those who think money the... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 546 pages
...of Petersburgh, Berlin, Paris and Madrid." He valued it at fourscore thousand; and so would any body who loves hippopotamuses, sharks with one ear, and spiders as big as geese ! It is a rent-charge, to keep the fetuses in spirits! You may believe that those who think money the... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1857 - 548 pages
...the Royal Academies of Petersburgh, Berlin, Paris, and Madrid. 1 He valued it at fourscore thousand ; and so would anybody who loves hippopotamuses, sharks with one ear, and spiders n* big as geese ! It is a rent-charge, to keep the foetuses in spirits ! 1 Ames, in a letter written... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1861 - 552 pages
...the Royal Academies of Petersburgh, Berlin, Paris, and Madrid. 1 He valued it at fourscore thousand; and so would anybody who loves hippopotamuses, sharks with one ear, and spiders as big as geese ! It is a rent-charge, to keep the foetuses in spirits! 1 Ames, in a letter written on the 22nd of... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1861 - 554 pages
...the Royal Academies of Petersburgh, Berlin, Paris, and Madrid. 1 He valued it at fourscore thousand; and so would anybody who loves hippopotamuses, sharks with one ear, and spiders 4s big as geese! It is a rent-charge, to keep the foetuses in spirits! 1 Ames, in a letter written... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1867 - 552 pages
...his jesting way : " Sir Hans Sloane is " dead, and has made me one of the " trustees of his museum. He valued " it at fourscore thousand pounds, and '' so would anybody who loved hippo"' potamuses, sharks with one ear, and " spiders as big as geese. It is a reiit' ; charge... | |
 | 1867 - 520 pages
...his jesting way : " Sir Hans Sloane is ' dead, and has made me one of the ' trustees of his museum. He valued ' it at fourscore thousand pounds, and ; so would anybody who loved hippo' potamuses, sharks with one ear, and ' spiders as big as geese. It is a rent' charge to... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1882 - 1050 pages
...time, chiefly at present in the guardianship of embryos and cockle-shells. Sir Hans Sloane is dead, and has made me one of the trustees of his museum, which is to be offered for twenty thousand pounds to tho King and Parliament, and (in default of acceptance) to the Boyal Academies of Petersburg, Berlin,... | |
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