 | sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 592 pages
...liletime and the whole resources of an enthuriaetic author have been lavished without stint .... This work Is a kind of British Museum • for this period and subject in small compass. It is a aeries of galleries of sutucb, gems, coins, documents, letters, hooka, and. relics, through which the... | |
 | Joseph Ennemoser, Mary Botham Howitt - BODY, MIND & SPIRIT - 1854 - 528 pages
...lifetime and the whole rsonrces of an enthusiastic author have been lavished without stint. .... This work is a kind of British Museum for this period and subject in small compass. It is a series of pllerUs of sutu-s, gems, coins, documents, loiters, books, and relics, through which tuo rader may... | |
 | Henry Noel Humphreys - Coins - 1869 - 414 pages
...lifetime and the whole resources of an enthusiastic author have been lavished without stint .... This work is a kind of British Museum for this period and...documents, letters, books, and relics, through which the r. ader may wander at leisure, and which he may animate with bis own musings and reflections. It must... | |
 | Paul Charles Morphy - Chess - 1872 - 534 pages
...lifetime and the whole resources of an enthusiastic author have been lavished without stint .... This work is a kind of British Museum for this period and subject in small compass. It is a scries of Cilleries of statues, gems, coins, documents, letters, books, and relic«, through which... | |
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The first glance tells us that the book Is one on which the leisure of a busy lifetime and the whole resources of an enthusiastic author have been lavished without stint This work is a kind of British Museum for this period and subject in small compass.... 
