 ... and useful inventions of mills, pumps, &c., and the pump he had erected, that serves water to his garden, and to passengers, with an inscription, and brings from a filthy part of the Thames near it, a most perfect and pure water. He had newly buried...  A Brief Account of the Life, Writings, and Inventions of Sir Samuel Morland ... - Page 10by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1838 - 31 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Frederick Partington - Inventions - 1826 - 356 pages
...a most perfect and pure water. He had newly buried 2001 worth of music books six feet under ground, being, as he said, love songs and van*ity. He plays himself psalms and religious hymns on the Tlieorbo." Diary, Oct. 25th, 1695. About the year 1684, Sir Samuel purchased a house at Hammersmith,... | |
 | Charles Frederick Partington - Steam-engines - 1836 - 402 pages
...most perfect and pure water. He had newly buried 200Z. worth of music books six feet under ground, being, as he said, love songs and vanity. He plays...himself psalms and religious hymns on the Theorbo." Diary, Oct. 25th, 1695. About the year 1684, Sir Samuel purchased a house at Hammersmith, and it appears... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1838 - 506 pages
...newly buried 200Í. worth of music-books, being, as he said, love songs and vanity. He plays hi<nself psalms and religious hymns on the Theorbo.' "The inscription...on a stone tablet fixed in the wall, and is still preserved ; the following is a copy * Eyelyn*B Nuroismata, p. 141. .f On the top was a Punchinello... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1838 - 520 pages
...newly buried 2001. worth of music-books, being, as he said, love songs and vanity. He plays hi<nself psalms and religious hymns on the Theorbo.' " The...on a stone tablet fixed in the wall, and is still preserved ; the following is a copy * Evelyn's Niimismata, p. 141. t On the top u-as a Punchinello... | |
 | English essays - 1839 - 722 pages
...the Thames near it a most perfect and pure water. He had newly buried jt'200 worth of music books, being, as he said, love songs and vanity. He plays...himself psalms and religious hymns on the theorbo-" The principal object of the present author, a gentleman of Trinity College, Cambridge, is to direct the... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1839 - 864 pages
...of the Thames near it a most perfect and pure water. He had newly buried £200 worth of music books, @ M 0 ~ t0Dp z hymnson the theorbo." The principal object of the present author, a gentleman of Trinity College, Cambridge,... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1850 - 414 pages
...He had newly buried £200 worth of music-books six feet under ground, being, as he said, lovesongs and vanity. He plays himself psalms and religious hymns on the theorbo. Very mild weather the whole of October. 10th November. Mr. Stanhope, f Vicar of Lewisham, preached... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Engineers - 1865 - 556 pages
...Thames now near it, a most perfect and pure water. He had newly buried 200/. worth of music books, being, as he said, love songs and vanity. He plays...and religious hymns on the theorbo." The inscription to which Evelyn refers was on a stone tablet fixed on the waU of his house, still preserved, which... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Steam-engines - 1865 - 560 pages
...Thames now near it, a most perfect and pure water. He had newly buried 200/. worth of music books, being, as he said, love songs and vanity. He plays...and religious hymns on the theorbo." The inscription to which Evelyn refers was on a stone tablet fixed on the wall of his house, still preserved, which... | |
 | Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 532 pages
...perfect and pure water. He had newly buried 200Í. worth of music-books, being, as he Faid, love-songs and vanity. He plays himself psalms and religious...theorbo." The inscription which Evelyn refers to was ou a stone-tablet axed in the wall, and is we believe still preserved ; the following is a copy of... | |
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