 | Early English newspapers - 1812 - 778 pages
...Publications. " - •* ' his eightieth year that Stowe at length received a public acknowledgement of his services, which will appear to us of a very...his circumstances, that he petitioned James I. for a licence to collect alms for himself! ' as a recompence for his labour and travel of forty-jive years... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 370 pages
...had he yielded, for those treasures of antiquities which had exhausted his fortune, and with which he had formed works of great public utility. It was in...nature. He was so reduced in his circumstances, that Jie petitioned James I. for a licence to collect alms for nimself ! " as a recompence for his labour... | |
 | Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 382 pages
...had he yielded, for those treasures of antiquities which had exhausted his fortune, and with which he had formed works of great public utility. It was in...will appear to us of a very extraordinary nature. He wus so reduced in his circum stances, that he petitioned James I. for a licence to collect alms for... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1840 - 462 pages
...he expended, for those treasures of antiquities which had exhausted his fortune, and with which he had formed works of great public utility. It was in...his circumstances that he petitioned James I. for a licence to collect alms for himself ! "as a recompense for his labour and travel of forty-five years... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1840 - 528 pages
...nature. He was so reduced in his circumstances that he petitioned James I. for a licence to culled alms for himself !" as a recompense for his labour and travel of forty-five yean, in setting forth the Chronicles of England, and eight years taken up in the Survey... | |
 | 1847 - 446 pages
...had he yielded, for those treasures of antiquities which had exhausted his fortune, and with which he had formed works of great public utility. It was in...himself, 'as a recompense for his labour and travel of forty-five years in setting forth the Chronicles of England, and eight years taken up in the Survey... | |
 | English literature - 1847 - 884 pages
...had exhausted his fortune, and with which he had formed works of great public utility. It was in bis eightieth year that Stowe at length received a public...himself, 'as a recompense for his labour and travel of forty-five years in setting forth the Chronicle* of England, and eight years taken up in the Survey... | |
 | American periodicals - 1848 - 636 pages
...had he yielded, for those treasures of antiquities which had exhausted his fortune, and with which he had formed works of great public utility. It was in...collect alms for himself, " as a recompense for his labor and travel of forty-five years in setting forth the chronicles of England, and eight years taken... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 588 pages
...had he yielded, for those treasures of antiquities which had exhausted his fortune, and with which he had formed works of great public utility. It was in...collect alms for himself, " as a recompense for his labor and travel of forty-jive years in setting forth the Chronicles of England, and eight years taken... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - London (England) - 1850 - 556 pages
...extraordinary nature. He was so reduced in his circumstances that he petitioned James the First for a licence to collect alms for himself! ' as a recompense for his labour and travel of forty-five years, in setting forth the Chronicles of England, and eight years taken up in the Survey... | |
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Many a mile had he wandered, many a pound had he yielded, for those treasures of antiquities which had exhausted his fortune, and with which he had formed works of great public utility. It was in his eightieth year that Stowe at length received a public... 
