 In the one he received, and from the other paid ; and this too with a want of circumspection which may be readily supposed from- such a mode of book-keeping. His losses on this occasion roused his latent talents: with a good classical education he united...  Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongueper Francis Grose - 1823 - 245 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1811 - 644 pàgines
...gratefully acknowledged in the preface to the third and fourth volumes. In 1777, he resumed his pencil, and added two more volumes to his English views, in which he included the islands of Guernsey and Jersey, in two hundred and thirty-seven views; and to these were added a general and county maps, completed... | |
 | John Walker - 1811 - 638 pàgines
...gratefully acknowledged in the preface to the third and fourth volumes. In 1777, he resumed his pencil, and added two more volumes to his English views, in which he included the islands of Guernsey and Jersey, in two hundred and thirty -seven views ; and to these were added a general and county maps, completed... | |
 | 1814 - 510 pàgines
...from- such a mode of book-keeping. His losses on this occasion roused his latent talents: with a good classical education he united a fine taste for drawing,...conveyed his information, and therefore answered his most sanguine expectations; and, from the time he began it to the end of his life, he continued without... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 516 pàgines
...education he united a fine taste for drawing, which he now began again to cultivate ; and eneonraged by his friends, he undertook the work from which he...conveyed his information, and therefore answered his most sanguine expectations; and, from the time he began it to the end of his life, he continued without... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 510 pàgines
...from such a mode of book-keeping. His losses on this occasion roused his latent talents : with a good classical education he united a fine taste for drawing....accuracy and elegance, soon became a favourite with the pnblic at large, as well as with professed antiquaries, from the neatness of the embellishments, and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1824 - 910 pàgines
...gratefully acknowledged in the preface to the third and fourth volumes. In 1777 he resumed his pencil, and added two more volumes to his English views, in which he included the islands of Guernsey and Jersey, in 237 views ; and to these were added a general and county maps, completed in 1787. The whole number... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1867 - 514 pàgines
...England and Wales,' in 1773, in numbers, and finished them in 1776. In 1777 he resumed his pencil, and added two more volumes to his ' English Views,' in...which he included the islands of Guernsey and Jersey. In the summer of 1789 he set out on a tour to Scotland, the result of which he began to communicate... | |
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