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" Merchant man (which shall at this time be nameless) that bought the Contents of two noble Libraries for forty shillings price ; a shame it is to be spoken. "
Illustrations of Biblical Literature: Exhibiting the History and Fate of the ... - Page 104
by James Townley - 1821
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 49

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1860 - 624 pages
...of two noble libraries for forty shillings price. This stuff hath he occupied in the stead of gray paper by the space of more than these ten years, and yet hath he store for as many years to come." Fuller joins in this lamentation with bitter and indignant...
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Temple Bar, Volume 54

George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1878 - 592 pages
...for forty shillings price ; a shame it is to be spoken. This stuff hath he occupied instead of grey paper by the space of more than these ten years, and yet hath he store enough for as many years to come." The library of the magnificent Abbey of Malmesbury...
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The ecclesiastical cyclopædia; or, Dictionary of Christian antiquities and ...

John Eadie - Church history - 1862 - 720 pages
...of two noble libraries for forty shillings price. This stuff hath he occupied in the stead of gray paper by the space of more than these ten years, and yet hath he »tore for as many years to come," Fuller joins in this lamentation with bitter and indignant...
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Origin of the holy Scriptures; their progress, transmission [&c.].

1864 - 190 pages
...shillings price: a shame it is to be spoken. This stuff hath he occupied instead of grey paper for the space of more than these ten years, and yet he hath store enough for as many years to come. A prodigious example this, and to be abhorred of all men, which love...
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The Reformation of the Church of England: Its History, Principles, and ...

John Henry Blunt - Reformation - 1868 - 606 pages
...for forty shillings' price : a shame it is to be spoken ! This stuff hath he occupied instead of gray paper, by the space of more than these ten years ; and yet he hath store enough for as many years to come. A prodigious example is this, and to be abhorred of all men, which...
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The Reformation and the Church of England: Its History, Principles, and ...

John Henry Blunt - Reformation - 1869 - 604 pages
...for forty shillings' price : a shame it is to be spoken ! This stuff hath he occupied instead of gray paper, by the space of more than these ten years ; and yet he hath store enough for as many years to come. A prodigious example is this, and to be abhorred of all men, which...
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Annales Caermoelenses, Or Annals of Cartmel

James Stockdale - Cartmel (England : Parish) - 1872 - 644 pages
...for forty shillings' price — a shame is it to be spoken. This stuff hath he used instead of grey paper by the space of more than these ten years, and yet he hath store enough for as many years to come. Neither the Britons, under the Romans and Saxons, nor yet the English...
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A History of Waverley Abbey: In the County of Surrey ...

Charles Kerry - Abbeys - 1873 - 130 pages
...for forty shillings apiece, a shame it is to be spoken. This stuff he hath occupied, instead of grey paper, by the space of more than these ten years, and yet hath he store enough for as many years to come." " 1533. Christ Church, London, was suppressed : Canons...
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A General History of the Science and Practice of Music, Volume 1

John Hawkins - Music - 1875 - 538 pages
...Thys stufie hath he occupyed In the stede of gray* 4 paper by the space of more than these x yeares, and yet he hath store ' ynough for as many yeares to come. A prodygyuose example is this, ' and to be abhorred of all men which love their nacyon as they shoulde...
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The Church Quarterly Review, Volume 73

Religion - 1912 - 568 pages
...contents of two noble libraries for forty shillings price : this stuff he hath occupied instead of gray paper, by the space of more than these ten years ; and yet he hath store enough for as many years to come.' Well might Fuller exclaim : ' What beautiful Bibles, rare Fathers,...
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