| Charles MacFarlane - 1845 - 276 pages
...inscription : — SIR THOMAS GRESHAM, WHO BY THE HONOURABLE PROFESSION OF A MERCHANT HAVING ENRICHED HIMSELF AND HIS COUNTRY, FoR CARRYING ON THE COMMERCE OF THE WORLD, BUILT THE ROYAL EXCHANGE. The recent history of the great centre of the commerce of the world is familiar to all. The edifice... | |
| Richard Lambert Jones - 1863 - 136 pages
...inscription describing him as one "who by the honourable profession of a merchant, having enriched himself and his country, for carrying on the commerce of the world, built the Royal Exchange." The building was similar in design and appearance to that of the Bourse at Antwerp, The architect was... | |
| Richard Lambert Jones - 1863 - 134 pages
...inscription describing him as one "who by the honourable profession of a merchant, having enriched himself and his country, for carrying on the commerce of the world, built the Royal Exchange." The building was similar in design and appearance to that of the Bourse at Antwerp. The architect was... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1873 - 596 pages
...antiquity. 'Sir Thomas Gresham: who, by the honourable profession of a merchant, having enriched himself and his country for carrying on the commerce of the...who, to adorn his country, introduced and rivalled the Greek and Koman Architecture. ' John Milton : whose sublime and unbounded genius equalled a subject... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1873 - 600 pages
...antiquity. 'Sir Thomas Gresham: who, by the honourable profession of a merchant, having enriched himself and his country for carrying on the commerce of the...who, to adorn his country, introduced and rivalled the Greek and Roman Architecture. ' John Milton : whose sublime and unbounded genius equalled a subject... | |
| 1873 - 892 pages
...Sir Thomas Gresham : who, by the honourable Profession of a merchant, having enriched himself and is country for carrying on the commerce of the world, built the Royal Exchange. " fgnatius Jones : who, to adorn his country, introduced and rivalled the Greek and Roman architecture.... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 pages
...antiquity. ' Sir Thomas Gresham : who, by the honorable profession of a merchant, having enriched himself and his country for carrying on the commerce of the...who, to adorn his country, introduced and rivalled the Greek and Roman Architecture. 'John Milton : whose sublime and unbounded genius equalled a subject... | |
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