 | John Evelyn - 1827 - 458 pages
...also for so excessive a price as was offer'd, advancing neere ,^1000 per ann. in .mere ground-rents; to such a mad intemperance was the age come of building about a citty, by far too disproportionate already to the nation: * I having in my time scene it almost as... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1841 - 918 pages
...also for so excessive a price as was offered, advancing near 1000/. per annum in mere ground-rents; to such a mad intemperance was the age come of building...far too disproportionate already to the nation. I have in my time seen it almost as large again as it was within my memory." Independently of the beauties... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1841 - 478 pages
...was the age come of building about a city by far too disproportionate already to the nation. I have in my time seen it almost as large again as it was within my memory." Independently of the beauties of the house and gardens, but slender interest attaches to Berkeley... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1850 - 416 pages
...also for so excessive a price as was offered, advancing near £1000 per annum in mere ground-rents ; to such a mad intemperance was the age come of building...seen it almost as large again as it was within my memory. 22nd. Last Friday, Sir Thomas Armstrong was executed at Tyburn for treason, without trial,... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1862 - 450 pages
...also for no excessiv ea price as waa offered, advancing near £1000 per annum in mere ground-rents ; to such a mad intemperance was the age come of building...by far too disproportionate already to the nation :1 I having in my time seen it almost as large again as it was within my memory. 22nd June. Last Friday,... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1870 - 788 pages
...also for so excessive a price as was offer'd, advancing neere £. 1000 per ann. in mere ground-rents; to such a mad intemperance was the age come of building about a citty, by far too disproportionate already to the nation1 ; I having in my time scene it almost as... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1878 - 450 pages
...also for so excessive a price as was offered, advancing near £1000 per annum in mere ground-rents ; to such a mad intemperance was the age come of building...seen it almost as large again as it was within my memory. 22nd June. Last Friday, Sir Thomas Armstrong was executed at Tyburn for treason, without trial,... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1879 - 652 pages
...also for so excessive a price as was offer'd, advancing neere ^.1000 per ann. in mere ground-rents; to such a mad intemperance was the age come of building about a citty, by far too disproportionate already to the nation1 ; I having in my time seene it almost as... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1884 - 626 pages
...lived to see them dug up and destroyed, in consequence of the ' mad interference ' of the age for ' building about a city by far too disproportionate already to the nation.'* What he would think of the disproportion, now that considerably more than a tenth of the whole population... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1891 - 594 pages
...also for so excessive a price as was offered, advancing neere ^1000 per ann. in mere groundrents ; to such a mad intemperance was the age come of building about a citty by far too disproportionate already to the nation ; I having, in my time, seene it almost as... | |
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... to such a mad intemperance was the age come of building about a city, by far too disproportionate already to the nation : * I having in my time seen it almost as large again as it was within my memory. 
