The Wedgwoods: Being a Life of Josiah Wedgwood; with Notices of His Works and Their Productions, Memoirs of the Wedgewood and Other Families, and a History of the Early Potteries of StaffordshireVirtue Brothers and Company, 1865 - 435 pages |
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... say the preparation of my present work has to me been " a labour of love . " Had its subject been less worthy than it is , and had the actual toil been short of what it has been , the pleasure I have felt in its preparation and con ...
... say the preparation of my present work has to me been " a labour of love . " Had its subject been less worthy than it is , and had the actual toil been short of what it has been , the pleasure I have felt in its preparation and con ...
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... say that the groundwork of this - my Life of Wedgwood - is to be found in the chapters on " Wedgwood and Etruria , " which form a part of the series of Histories of the Porcelain and Earthenware Manufactories of this Kingdom , which I ...
... say that the groundwork of this - my Life of Wedgwood - is to be found in the chapters on " Wedgwood and Etruria , " which form a part of the series of Histories of the Porcelain and Earthenware Manufactories of this Kingdom , which I ...
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... says , " there exist documents which imply that during many centuries considerable quantities of common culinary articles were made from a mixture of different clays found in most parts of the district . " It is certain that throughout ...
... says , " there exist documents which imply that during many centuries considerable quantities of common culinary articles were made from a mixture of different clays found in most parts of the district . " It is certain that throughout ...
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... say a word or two upon them , for the purpose of exploding an opinion which I believe has gained very general credence , that , till the time of Josiah Wedgwood , none but these coarse vessels were made in the potteries . Nothing could ...
... say a word or two upon them , for the purpose of exploding an opinion which I believe has gained very general credence , that , till the time of Josiah Wedgwood , none but these coarse vessels were made in the potteries . Nothing could ...
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... says : - " Butter pots are mentioned in the parochial records of the town forty years before Dr. Plot wrote ; for five pots of butter were sent from Uttoxeter to the garrison of Tutbury Castle , and had been bought at the sum of 12s ...
... says : - " Butter pots are mentioned in the parochial records of the town forty years before Dr. Plot wrote ; for five pots of butter were sent from Uttoxeter to the garrison of Tutbury Castle , and had been bought at the sum of 12s ...
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Page 35 - O'ershadowed by thy rough beard like a wood ; Or like a larger jug that some men call A Bettarmine, but we a Conscience: Whereon the lewder hand of pagan workman Over the proud ambitious head hath carved • An idol large, with beard episcopal, Making the vessel look like tyrant Eglon.
Page 251 - The bill passed the house of commons, and was sent up to the lords, by whom it was read a second time, and committed : but the ministry employing their whole strength against it, on the report it was thrown out by a majority of two voices.
Page 188 - Jasper; a white porcelain biscuit 'of exquisite beauty and delicaey, possessing the general properties of the basaltes, together with the singular one of receiving through its whole substance, from the admixture of metallic calces with the other materials, the same colours which those calces communicate to glass or enamels in fusion ; a property which no other porcelain or earthenware body of ancient or modern composition has been found to possess. This renders it peculiarly fit for making...
Page 174 - Peak, or one of his own carters ; but when he speaks all ears listen, and every mind is filled with wonder at the things he pronounces to be practicable. He has cut a mile through bogs, which he binds up, embanking them with stones, which he gets out of other parts of the navigation, besides about a quarter of a mile into the hill Yelden, on the side of which he has a pump...
Page 414 - Johnson, and her assigns, for and during the term of her natural life...
Page 212 - I am just returned from viewing the Wedgewood-ware that is to be sent to the Empress of Russia. It consists I believe of as many pieces as there are days in the year, if not hours. They are displayed at a house in Greek-street, Soho, called
Page 200 - WHEREAS His Most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the...
Page 78 - In the name of God, Amen. I, William Shakspere, of Stratford-on-Avon, in the County of Warwick, gent., in perfect health and memory (God be praised) do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form following...
Page 416 - ... together with interest for the same in the mean time after the rate of 51.
Page 82 - AB, of in the county of gentleman, being of sound and disposing mind and memory, do make and publish this my last will and testament, hereby revoking all former wills by me at any time heretofore made.