Bye-paths in Curio CollectingT.F. Unwin Limited, 1919 - 462 psl. |
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23 psl.
... objects of art with which they are most conversant ; this largely accounts for the ripe judgment and fine taste ... object of art is not to be measured in terms of £ s . d . or dollars . Until you have mastered this axiom you are not a ...
... objects of art with which they are most conversant ; this largely accounts for the ripe judgment and fine taste ... object of art is not to be measured in terms of £ s . d . or dollars . Until you have mastered this axiom you are not a ...
25 psl.
... objects of a bye - gone age are worthy of preservation : that certain objects of his own day are equally worthy of preservation . This latter is a gift only vouchsafed to the few spirits who have collecting in their blood . To separate ...
... objects of a bye - gone age are worthy of preservation : that certain objects of his own day are equally worthy of preservation . This latter is a gift only vouchsafed to the few spirits who have collecting in their blood . To separate ...
28 psl.
... objects representing his skill . A trained eye and a keen scent for what is spurious , amounting almost to an unerring instinct as to what is genuine and what is not , go to the making of a connoisseur . In every field there are pieces ...
... objects representing his skill . A trained eye and a keen scent for what is spurious , amounting almost to an unerring instinct as to what is genuine and what is not , go to the making of a connoisseur . In every field there are pieces ...
30 psl.
... objects are in existence ( omitting , of course , the forgeries that swell the number ) , the ultimate end of all is mere interchange ? One collector devotes a lifetime to collecting Dürer or Hollar prints , care- fully catalogued and ...
... objects are in existence ( omitting , of course , the forgeries that swell the number ) , the ultimate end of all is mere interchange ? One collector devotes a lifetime to collecting Dürer or Hollar prints , care- fully catalogued and ...
51 psl.
... objects for centuries . In the sixteenth- century portrait of the merchant Georg Gisz by Holbein , in his counting - house , there is a ledger bound in green with the peculiar vellum cross stitching in white still employed in ledgers ...
... objects for centuries . In the sixteenth- century portrait of the merchant Georg Gisz by Holbein , in his counting - house , there is a ledger bound in green with the peculiar vellum cross stitching in white still employed in ledgers ...
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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.