 | Francis Grose - England - 1782 - 370 pages
...for forty shillings price: a shame it is to be spoken ! This stuff hath he occupied instead of grey paper, by the space of more than these ten years,...yet he hath store enough for as many years to come : a prodigious example is this, and to be abhorred by all men, which loved their nation as they should... | |
 | History - 1803 - 598 pages
...be spoken ! This stuff hath he occupied instead of grey-paper, by the space of more than these tea years, and yet he hath store enough for as many years to come : a prodigious example is this, and to be abhorred by all men, which loved their nation as they should... | |
 | John Whitaker - Church buildings - 1804 - 452 pages
...shillings piyce; a shame " it is, to be spoken. Thys stiiffe hath he occupyed in the stede ofgraye "paper, by the space of more than these ten years; and yet he had, " store ynough for as many years to come. A. prodigyouse example is " this, and to be abhorred... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - Bibliographical literature - 1811 - 828 pages
...is to be spoken ! This stuff hath he occupied in the stead of grey paper, by the space of more than ten years, and yet he hath store enough for as many years to come !' Preface to Lcland's Laboryouse Jonnwy, &c. 1549, 8vo. Reprint of 1772 , sign. C. of many curious... | |
 | 1812 - 532 pages
...be fed with so ungodly gains, and so deeply shameth his native country. I know a merchant man (which shall at this time be nameless) that bought the contents...by the space of more than these ten years, and yet hath hestore enoutrh for as many years to came. " Bale's Declaration, &c. :ipud Collier's Eccles. Hist.... | |
 | James Townley - Bible - 1821 - 570 pages
...xl. shyllynges pryce, a shame it is to be spoken. Thys stuffe hath he occupyed in the stede of graye paper, by the space of more than these ten years, and yet he hath store ynough for as many yeares to come. A prodygyouse example is this, and to be abhorred of all men which... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 876 pages
...detestable a fact. I know a merchant that bought the contents of two noble libraries for 403. priée ; a shame it is to be spoken ! This stuff hath he occupied...paper, by the space of more than these ten years, and yrt be hath store enough for as many years to come. I shall judge this to he true, and utter it with... | |
 | Henry Soames - 1826 - 682 pages
...for forty shillings price, a shame it is to be spoken. This stuff hath he occupied instead of grey paper, by the space of more than these ten years, and yet he hath store enough for as many years to come.—Our posterity may well curse this wicked fact of our age, this unreasonable spoil of England's... | |
 | Edward Hatton - 1826 - 274 pages
...contents of two noble libraries for 40 shillings price : a sharer it is to be spoken This stuff haih be occupied instead of gray paper by the space of more than these ten years, an yet he hath store enough for as many years to come. A prodigious example this, and to- be abhorred... | |
 | James Bennett - Tewkesbury (England) - 1830 - 502 pages
...forty shillings pryce, a shame it is to be spoken. This stuffe hath he oceupyed in the stede of grave paper by the space of more than these ten years, and yet the old hostelry, the chamberer's lodging, the new hall, the old parlour adjoining to the abbot's lodging;... | |
| |
I know a merchant-man which shall at this time be nameless, that bought the contents of two noble libraries for forty shillings' price : a shame it is to be spoken ! This stuff hath he occupied instead of gray paper, by the space of more than these ten... 
