Letters of Eminent Men, Addressed to Ralph Thoresby: Now First Published from the Originals, 1. cilt

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H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1832
 

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Sayfa 173 - Midsummer, and am not yet settled in one again (which hath made it one of the uncasiest parts of my time). And the neglect and discouragements I have met with did almost overpower, and would quickly have made me unfit for any public service, if I had given way to them; but I bless God I am got above them: and I have cast that burden upon one that will sustain it for me. "We are now treating with the Haberdashers to succeed Mr. Howe in his place, when he leaves it at Lady Day, to go to his new one...
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Sayfa 297 - Thoresby informed Gibson that 'a young gentleman in Oxford, Mr. Wanley, is laying the foundation of a Res Diplomatica for England particularly. He designs and draws admirably well; having besides an unaccountable skill in imitating any hand whatsoever. His great curiosity in books printed and manuscript has recommended him to the University to be one of their under Library Keepers; and the command he has of everything there gives him the best opportunity he could wish of carrying on this honourable...
Sayfa 170 - ... must have aroused wide-spread interest and in 1694 we find Dr. Jabez Cay, of Newcastleupon-Tyne writing to Ralph Thoresby, of Leeds,1 for particulars of the water supply there. Newcastle, 6th Nov., 1694. Dear Sir, Yesterday I received your kind letter enclosed in one from Whitehaven, I would beg a favour of you. I hear there is a man come to Leeds with a design to furnish the town with water, after a manner somewhat extraordinary; they say he forceth the water almost half a mile upon an ascent...
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