 | John Wilkes - Great Britain - 1777 - 162 pages
...tafte, than to be thus deprived of feafting his delighted view with what he moft defired, and had always confidered as the pride of our ifland, as an invaluable...their prince an income of above a million a year, even under the greateft public burthens. A remarkable opportunity, fir, of improving the national tafte... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Great Britain - 1777 - 432 pages
...be thus deprived of feafting his delighted view with what he moft admired, and had always considered as the pride of our ifland, as an invaluable national...property ? The Kings of France and Spain permit their fubjefls the view of all the piftures in their colleftions. A remarkable opportunity, Sir, of improving... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1802 - 438 pages
...always considered as the pride of our island, as an invaluable national treasure, as a common blessing, not as private property ? The Kings of France and Spain permit their subjedts the view of all the pictures in their collections. A remarkable opportunity, Sir, of improving... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1809 - 608 pages
...always considered as the pride of our island, as an invaluable national treasure, as a common blessing, not as private property ? The kings of France and Spain permit their subjects the view of all the pictures in their collections. A remarkable opportunity, sir, of improving... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1814 - 736 pages
...always considered as the pride of our island, as an invaluable national treasure, as a common blessing, not as private property ? The kings of France and Spain permit their subjects and strangers the view of all the pictures in their collections : and sure, Sir, an equal... | |
 | William Thomas Whitley - Art - 1928 - 472 pages
...always considered as the pride of our Island, as an invaluable national treasure, as a common blessing, not as private property. The Kings of France and Spain permit their subjects the view of all the pictures in their collections." In another passage of his speech Wilkes... | |
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English gentleman of taste, than to be thus deprived of feasting his delighted view with what he most admired, and had always considered as the pride of our island, as an invaluable national treasure, as a common blessing, not as private property ? The... 