 | Tristram Risdon - 1811 - 548 páginas
...He was the most accomplished treasurer of the antiquities of this county; and, had he been pleased to have been the author of this work, the worth of...own sufficiency, would have been the better known. Such a gift had he of rare memory, that he would have recited upon a sudden the descents of most eminent... | |
 | Tristram Risdon - 1811 - 548 páginas
...lie was the most accomplished treasurer of the antiquities of this county ; and, had he been pleased to have been the author of this work, the worth of...own sufficiency, would have been the better known. Such a gift had he of rare memory, that he would have recited upon a sudden the descents of most eminent... | |
 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1882 - 734 páginas
...he was the most accomplished* treasurer of the antiquities of this county; and had he been pleased to have been the author of this work, the worth of...natives thereof, and his own sufficiency would have been better known. Such a gift had he of rare memory, that he would have recited upon a sudden the descents... | |
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... better known. Such a gift had he of rare memory, that he would have recited upon a sudden the descents of most eminent families; from whose lamp I have received light in these my labours. Moreover he had an extraordinary blessing of the Lord ; for... 