Catalogue of the More Important Books, Autographs, and Manuscripts in the Library of George C. Thomas1907 - 86 pages |
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A. L. S. March ABRAHAM April Army AUTOGRAPH LETTER AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT Baskett Bedford Bible black letter blank blue Bound in full Breviary British Museum brown morocco CALENDARIO century Charles Dickens contains copies known CRUSOE CYRUS FIELD DATED decorated Edition Edward enclosed England English folio FRANCIS GEORGE Gerard David Germantown gilt edges Gothic Hans Memling Heber HORAE illuminated manuscript imprint inches inscription issued JOHN JOSEPH HEWES KEATS LATIN LEE A. L. S. levant morocco Library LINCOLN LISHED ACCORDING London margins MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK ment miniatures morocco extra ORIGINAL DRAWINGS Penn perfect copy Pickwick PICKWICK PAPERS POEMS portrait PRAYER BOOK Printed Printer Processional Purchased rare red morocco RICHARD RICHARD WAGNER sides signatures SIGNED Small 4to TESTAMENT Thackeray Thomas TRANSLATED U. S. GRANT uncut usum insignis vellum VIRGINIS vols volume W. E. GLADSTONE WASHINGTON Wilkie Collins WILLIAM WILLIAM TYNDALE woodcut written York Manual
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Page 73 - I have placed you at the head of the Army of the Potomac. Of course I have done this upon what appear to me to be sufficient reasons, and yet I think it best for you to know that there are some things in regard to which I am not quite satisfied with you.
Page 44 - THE HOLY BIBLE: CONTAINING THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE NEW. Translated into the INDIAN LANGUAGE, and Ordered to be printed by the Commissioners of the United Colonies in NEW-ENGLAND, At the Charge, and with the Consent of the CORPORATION IN ENGLAND For the Propagation of the Gospel amongst the Indians in New-England.
Page 49 - MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Originall Copies. London, Printed by ISAAC IAGGARD and ED. BLOUNT. 1623...
Page 73 - Burnside's command of the Army, you have taken counsel of your ambition, and thwarted him as much as you could, in which you did a great wrong to the country, and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer. I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the Army and the Government needed a Dictator.
Page 73 - I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for all commanders. I much fear that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticising their commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you. I shall assist you as far as I can to put it down. Neither you nor Napoleon, if he were alive again, could get any good out...
Page 42 - Containing the Old and New Testaments, translated out of the Original Tongues, and with the former Translations diligently Compared and Revised by His Majesty's Special Command. Appointed to be read in Churches.
Page 73 - I have heard, in such way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the army and the government needed a dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes, can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.
Page 49 - London, Printed by Tho. Cotes, for Robert Allot, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Blacke Beare in Pauls Church-yard. 1632.
Page 72 - I shall carry to the grave the most grateful recollections of your kind consideration, and your name and fame will always be dear to me.
Page 12 - Paradise Lost. A Poem written in ten books by John Milton. Licensed and Entred according to Order.