 | Robert Cowtan - 1872 - 444 pages
...for history Mr. Carlyle particularly mentioned the Thomason collection of tracts ; he remarks, — " They are called the King's Pamphlets ; and in value,...believe, the whole world could not parallel them. If you were to take all the collections of works on the Civil War, of which I have ever heard notice,... | |
 | Robert Cowtan - 1873 - 104 pages
...of Oliver Cromwell. Mr. Carlyle himself, in speaking of this collection, says: — "They are called King's Pamphlets; and, in value, I believe the whole world could not parallel them. If you were to take all the collections of works on the Civil War, of which I have ever heard notice,... | |
 | Robert Cowtan - 1873 - 106 pages
...of Oliver Cromwell. Mr. Carlyle himself, in speaking of this collection, says: — "They are called King's Pamphlets; and, in value, I believe the whole world could not parallel them. If you were to take all the collections of works on the Civil War, of which I have ever heard notice,... | |
 | Richard Herne Shepherd, Charles Norris Williamson - 1881 - 452 pages
...England during the Commonwealth) '• in the Museum ; a great many of them were given by George III. They are called the King's Pamphlets ; and in value,...believe, the whole world could not parallel them. If you were to take all the collections of works on the Civil War, of which I have ever heard notice,... | |
 | William Howie Wylie - 1881 - 436 pages
...Tracts, as furnishing splendid materials for history. " They are called the King's pamphlets," he said, " and in value, I believe, the whole world could not parallel them. If you were to take all the collections of works on the Civil War, of which I have ever heard notice,... | |
 | William Howie Wylie - 1881 - 444 pages
...Tracts, as furnishing splendid materials for history. " They are called the King's pamphlets," he said, " and in value, I believe, the whole world could not parallel them. If you were to take all the collections of works on the Civil War, of which I have ever heard notice,... | |
 | 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 - 1908 - 650 pages
...collections he speaks with characteristic picturesqueness and energy. He says of the Thomason Tracts, 'In value, I believe the whole world could not parallel...greatly preferable to all the sheep-skins in the Tower for informing the English what the English were in former times.' Alluding to Thomason's own catalogue... | |
 | Henry Charles Shelley - 1911 - 478 pages
...signaled out the Thomason collection of tracts for unstinted eulogy. " They are called," he said, " the King's Pamphlets ; and in value, I believe, the whole world could not parallel them. If you were to take all the collections of works on the civil war, of which I have ever heard notice,... | |
 | Ernest Albert Baker - 1927 - 336 pages
...collection of material for any important period in its history as this, which Carlyle declared was " greatly preferable to all the sheepskins in the Tower...the English what the English were in former times." 6o material for the history of our own Revolution ; but it must be regarded as very fortunate in possessing... | |
 | Arundell James Kennedy Esdaile - 1928 - 168 pages
...have attracted much attention till Carlyle, in his full and heightened style, greatly preferred them to "all the sheepskins in the Tower and other places,...the English what the English were in former times". From that date they have been, as they deserve to be, one of the chief sources, literary as well as... | |
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They are called the King's Pamphlets; and in value, I believe, the whole world could not parallel them. If you were to take all the collections of works on the Civil War, of which I have ever heard notice, I believe you would not get a set of works so... 
