Bye-paths in Curio CollectingT.F. Unwin Limited, 1919 - 462 psl. |
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46 psl.
... carried fire and sword across conquered territories . From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century central Europe has been a cockpit of carnage . Whole armies of ill - fed and ill - paid mercenaries were loosed upon a civil population ...
... carried fire and sword across conquered territories . From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century central Europe has been a cockpit of carnage . Whole armies of ill - fed and ill - paid mercenaries were loosed upon a civil population ...
47 psl.
... carry it , and it was solidly constructed to bear a great weight . There are exceptions , for instance in some forms of casket , especially when made of steel , the handles were at the side , as in the casket illustrated on page 57. But ...
... carry it , and it was solidly constructed to bear a great weight . There are exceptions , for instance in some forms of casket , especially when made of steel , the handles were at the side , as in the casket illustrated on page 57. But ...
60 psl.
... carry the beds and linen from one place to another , the trestle tables folded up , and noble families in changing houses travelled with their retinue , with a considerable amount of baggage . The lives of the wealthy classes were set ...
... carry the beds and linen from one place to another , the trestle tables folded up , and noble families in changing houses travelled with their retinue , with a considerable amount of baggage . The lives of the wealthy classes were set ...
63 psl.
... carried as a travelling trunk on the back of a mule . These travelling trunks had an arched top , like a lady's dress trunk to - day . There are examples extant with crown and initials of the owner , for instance K.R. is on the chest of ...
... carried as a travelling trunk on the back of a mule . These travelling trunks had an arched top , like a lady's dress trunk to - day . There are examples extant with crown and initials of the owner , for instance K.R. is on the chest of ...
68 psl.
... carry , they set off across England to Dover , which they reached after four days . On their way they incensed the popula- tion against them by their haughty conduct . At Dover one of the mob threw a stone and struck one of the French ...
... carry , they set off across England to Dover , which they reached after four days . On their way they incensed the popula- tion against them by their haughty conduct . At Dover one of the mob threw a stone and struck one of the French ...
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A. E. Smith amulets artistic beautiful Bible Bible box blue bowl brass cabinet candle carved casket Caspar Netscher Charles chest china Chinese coffer collection collector colour costume cups decoration Dutch ear-rings early earthenware eighteenth century enamel England English engraving Etruria Evil Eye examples exhibited factory faience fashion figures French glaze green handle head Hispano-Moresque House illustrated inches inscribed inscription Ireland Irish Italian jars Josiah Wedgwood ladies late eighteenth later Liverpool London Lowestoft marquetry metal modern origin ornament pack painted period pipe plate playing cards porcelain portrait printed profile painter Queen regard rich rococo Rouen royal salt salt cellars seventeenth century SHEFFIELD PLATED shows silhouette silver snuffers Spanish specimens spinning spinning-wheels Staffordshire style symbols tea-pot tiles tinder box tobacco tobacco boxes tobacco stoppers Toby jug toys transfer-printed types various vases ware wheel wood
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55 psl. - neath my tabernacle take my rest, With those nine columns round me, two and two, The odd one at my feet where Anselm stands: Peach-blossom marble all, the rare?; the ripe As fresh-poured red wine of a mighty pulse.
386 psl. - ... and can. I have heard that on a day Mine host's sign-board flew away, Nobody knew whither, till An astrologer's old quill To a sheepskin gave the story, Said he saw you in your glory, Underneath a new old sign Sipping beverage divine, And pledging with contented smack The Mermaid in the Zodiac.
113 psl. - What though you have found no treasure, nor has any rich relation left you a legacy. Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.
384 psl. - It is the moon — I ken her horn, That's blinkin' in the lift sae hie ; She shines sae bright to...
157 psl. - For while with their knife which they hold in one hand they cut the meate out of the dish, they fasten the forke which they hold in their other hand upon the same dish, so that whatsoever he be that sitting in the company of any others at...
199 psl. - We had an elegant house situated in a fine country, and a good neighbourhood. The year was spent in moral or rural amusements, in visiting our rich neighbours, and relieving such as were poor. We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo ; all our adventures were by the fire-side, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown.
128 psl. - ... any spring-gun, man-trap, or other engine calculated to destroy human life or inflict grievous bodily harm, with intent that the same or whereby the same may destroy or inflict grievous bodily harm...
68 psl. - If God spare my life, ere many years I will cause a boy that driveth the plough shall know more of the Scripture than thou dost.
33 psl. - ... be served; the parlour is decorated with so many piles of china, that I dare not step within the door; at every turn of the stairs I have a clock, and half the windows of the upper floors are darkened that shelves may be set before them.
129 psl. - ... such as may have been or may be usually set or placed with the intent of destroying vermin : Provided also, that nothing in this section shall be deemed to make it unlawful to set or place, or cause to be set or placed, or to be continued set or placed, from sunset to sunrise, any spring gun, man trap, or other engine which shall be set or placed, or caused or continued to be set or placed, in a dwelling house, for the protection thereof.