| Edward Edwards - Libraries - 1859 - 898 pages
...great number of them which purchased those superstitious mansions, reserved of those Library-books, some ... to scour their candlesticks, and some to rub their boots; some they sold to the grocers and soap-sellers, and some they sent over sea to the bookbinders, not in small number but at times whole... | |
| Christopher BARKER (of Huddersfield.) - 1859 - 122 pages
...superstitious mansions (continues he) reserved of those library books some to serve the vilest uses, some to scour their candlesticks, and some to rub their boots, some they sold to the grocers and soapsellers, and some they sent over sea to the bookbinders, not in small numbers, but at times whole... | |
| English literature - 1859 - 590 pages
...great number of them which purchased those superstitious mansions, reserved of those library-books, some to scour their candlesticks, and some to rub their boots; some they sold to the grocers and soap-sellers, and some they sent over the sea to the book-binders, not in small numbers, but at times... | |
| John Beswicke Greenwood - 1859 - 286 pages
...superstitious mansions, reserved of the library books, some to serve their jacks, some to scour the candlesticks, and some to rub their boots ; some they sold to the grocer and soapseller ; and some they sent over the sea to the bookbinders, — not in small numbers,... | |
| John Beswicke Greenwood - 1859 - 282 pages
...superstitious mansions, reserved of the library books, some to serve theii jacks, some to scour the candlesticks, and some to rub their boots ; some they sold to the grocer and soapseller ; and some they sent over the sea to the bookbinders,—not in small numbers,... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1860 - 624 pages
...great number of them which purchased those superstitious mansions, reserved of those library-books, some to scour their candlesticks, and some to rub their boots ; some they sold to the grocers and soap-sellers, and some they sent over the sea to the bookbinders, not in small numbers, but at times... | |
| Irish ecclesiastical record - 1869 - 620 pages
...Knox, assures us that "a great number of those who purchased these superstitious mansions, reserved the library books, some to serve their jakes, some to...rub their boots : some they sold to the grocers and soap-sellers, and some they sent over sea to the bookbinders, not in small numbers, but at times whole... | |
| John Henry Blunt - Reformation - 1868 - 606 pages
...those library-books some to serve their jakes, some to scour CHAP VI Whole libraries wantonly wasted their candlesticks, and some to rub their boots; some they sold to the grocers and soap-sellers, and some they sent over sea to the bookbinders, not in small number, but at times whole... | |
| James Frederick S. Gordon - 1868 - 206 pages
...them which purchased those superstitious mansions, reserved of those Library Books some to scour the candlesticks, and some to rub their boots ; some they sold to the grocers and soap-sellers ; and some they sent over the sea to the bookbinders, not in small numbers, but, at times,... | |
| George Philip R. Pulman - Axe, River (Dorset-Devon, England) - 1875 - 962 pages
...pillage of the monasteries extended to their libraries. The books were torn up — " some to scour the candlesticks and some to rub their boots ; — some they sold to the grocers and soap-sellers, and some they sent over sea to the bookbinders, — • not in small lumbers, but at... | |
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