 | Agnes Strickland - 1848 - 502 pages
...lordship replied, " That her majesty need not press him to take care of that gentleman, for he was lite man he designed, out of regard to his great knowledge, to distinguish in a particular manner." The distinction proved, however, nothing but a request to sit for his picture, that it might take its... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - Queens - 1852 - 372 pages
...lordship repliedj " That her majesty need not press him to take care of that gentleman, for he was the man he designed, out of regard to his great knowledge, to distinguish in a particular manner." The distinction proved, however, nothing but a request to sit for his picture, that it might take its... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - Queens - 1854 - 692 pages
...lucli from this cause in the reign of queen Anne.—Lockhart of Carnwutb, vol. i. .367. for he was the man he designed, out of regard to his great knowledge, to distinguish in a particular manner." The distinction proved, however, nothing but a request to sit for his picture, that it might take its... | |
 | Charles Knight - Biography - 1866 - 552 pages
...usuall answer was, that ther was no need of pressing him to take care of that gentleman, for he was thee man he designed, out of regard to his great knowledge,...a collection of the pictures of the learned, both ancient and modern, and as he knew none who better deserved a place there than Mr. Anderson he begged... | |
 | Great Britain - 1885 - 502 pages
...that ther was no need of Dressing him to take care of that gentleman,, for he was thee man he designd, out of regard to his great knowledge, to distinguish in a particular manner. Mr. Anderson being thus putt off from time to time for fourteen or fifteen months, his lordship at length told him that no... | |
 | Leslie Stephen, Sir Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee - Great Britain - 1885 - 492 pages
...that ther was no need of pressing him to take care of that gentleman, for he was thee man he designd, out of regard to his great knowledge, to distinguish in a particular manner. Mr. Anderson being thus putt oft' from time to time for fourteen or fifteen months, his lordship at length told him that no... | |
 | Dictionary - 1885 - 500 pages
...that ther was no need of pressing him to take care of that gentleman, tor he was thee man he designd, out of regard to his great knowledge, to distinguish in a particular manner. Mr. Anderson being thus putt off from time to time for fourteen or fifteen months, his lordship at length told him that no... | |
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Anderson being thus put off from time to time for fourteen or fifteen months, his lordship at length told him that no doubt he had heard that in his fine library he had a collection of the pictures of the learned both antient and modern, and as he knew... 