 | George Edwards - Birds - 1776 - 340 pages
...favour to him, ** (though I embraced his requeft as an honour done to myfelf) that I " would vifit him every week, in order to divert him, for an hour...happen amongft his acquaintance of the Royal Society, and other '* ingenious \> . -tt His colle&ion of drawings, which amounted to uj>* wards of nine IiundrcJ,... | |
 | Books - 1760 - 556 pages
...fa* vour to him, (though I embraced his requeft as an honour * done to myfelf ) that I would vifit him every week, in order * to divert him, for an hour...two, with the common news * of the town, and with anything particular that mould hap' pen amongft his acquaintance of the Royal Society, anil ' other... | |
 | Thomas Faulkner - Chelsea (London, England) - 1810 - 514 pages
...requested it as a favour to him, (though I embraced it as an honour done to myself), that I would visit him every week in order to divert him, for an hour...or two, with the common news of the town, and with every thing particular that should happen amongst his acquaintance of the Royal Society, and other... | |
 | John Nichols - Authors, English - 1812 - 734 pages
...(though I embraced his request as an honour done to myself), that I would visit him every week, in o.'der to divert him, for an hour or two, with the common,...news of the town, and with any thing particular that should happen amongst his acquaintance of the Royal Society, and other ingenious gentlemen, many of... | |
 | William Macmichael - Medicine - 1828 - 290 pages
...Our Librarian, Edwards, of whom we were talking a few minutes ago, was used to visit him every week to divert him for an hour or two with the common news of the town, and with any particulars that might have happened amongst his acquaintances of the Royal Society, or * Sloane Street... | |
 | William Jardine - Birds - 1836 - 384 pages
...favour to him, (though I embraced his request as an honour done to myself,) that I would visit him erery week, in order to divert him, for an hour or two,...news of the town, and with any thing particular that should happen amongst his acquaintances of the Royal Society, and other ingenious gentlemen, many of... | |
 | Edward Mammatt - Art - 1836 - 364 pages
...During Sir Hans Sloane's retirement at Chelsea, George Edwards was accustomed to visit him every week, to divert him for an hour or two with the common news of the town, and with any particulars that might have happened amongst his acquaintance of the Royal Society, or other scientific... | |
 | Charles Richard Weld - London (England) - 1848 - 570 pages
...as a favour to him (though I embraced his request as an honour done to myself), that I would visit him every week, in order to divert him for an hour...news of the town, and with any thing particular that should happen amongst his acquaintance of the Royal Society, and other ingenious gentlemen, many of... | |
 | Charles Richard Weld - London (England) - 1848 - 582 pages
...as a favour to him (though I embraced his request as an honour done to myself), that I would visit him every week, in order to divert him for an hour...news of the town, and with any thing particular that should happen amongst his acquaintance of the Royal Society, and other ingenious gentlemen, many of... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1911 - 588 pages
...request as an honour done to myself) that I would visit him every week, in order to divert him, lor an hour or two, with the common news of the town, and with any thing particular that should happen amongst his acquaintance of the Royal Society, and other ingenious Gentlemen, many of... | |
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... particular that should happen amongst his acquaintance of the Royal Society, and other ingenious Gentlemen, many of whom I was weekly conversant with ; and I seldom missed drinking coffee with him on a Saturday, during the whole time of his retirement... 
