 | Thomas Jefferson - 1898 - 580 pages
...have been fifty years making it, and have spared no pains, opportunity or expense, to make it what it is. While residing in Paris, I devoted every afternoon...principal bookstores, turning over every book with my own hand, and putting by everything which related to America, and indeed whatever was rare and valuable... | |
 | William Dawson Johnston - 1904 - 704 pages
...have been fifty years making it, and have spared no pains, opportunity or expense, to make it what it is. While residing in Paris, I devoted every afternoon...principal bookstores, turning over every book with my own hand, and putting by everything which related to America, and indeed whatever was rare and valuable... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1905 - 584 pages
...have been fifty years making it, and have spared no pains, opportunity or expense, to make it what it is. While residing in Paris, I devoted every afternoon...principal bookstores, turning over every book with my own hand, and putting by everything which related to America, and indeed whatever was rare and valuable... | |
 | Annie (Dennis) Bursch, Frederick C. Bursch - 1905 - 330 pages
...have been fifty years making it, and have spared no pains, opportunity or expense, to make it what it is. While residing in Paris, I devoted every afternoon...principal bookstores, turning over every book with my own hand, and putting by everything which related to America, and indeed whatever was rare and valuable... | |
 | George C. Hazelton - 1906 - 328 pages
...which it was deposited. ... I presume it will be among the early objects of Congress tore-commence their collection. This will be difficult while the...bookstores, turning over every book with my own hands, and pulling by everylhing which relaled to America, and, indeed, whatever was rare and valuable in every... | |
 | William Warner Bishop - 1912 - 30 pages
...have been fifty years making it, and have spared no pains, opportunity or expense, to make it what it is. While residing in Paris, I devoted every afternoon...the principal bookstores, turning over every book in my hand, and putting by every thing which related to America, and indeed whatever was rare and valuable... | |
 | 1912 - 556 pages
...have been fifty years making it, and have spared no pains, opportunity or expense, to make it what it is. While residing in Paris, I devoted every afternoon...the principal bookstores, turning over every book in my hand, and putting by every thing which related to America, and indeed whatever was rare and valuable... | |
 | 1912 - 732 pages
...have been fifty years making it, and have spared no pains, opportunity or expense, to make it what it is. While residing in Paris, I devoted every afternoon...the principal bookstores, turning over every book in my hand, and putting by every thing which related to America, and indeed whatever was rare and valuable... | |
 | Thomas Fleming - 1913 - 362 pages
...expense, to make it what it now is. While residing in Paris, I devoted every afternoon I was disengaged, in examining all the principal book-stores, turning...and putting by everything which related to America. * * * The collection contained between nine and ten thousand volumes. * * * I wish to make a tender... | |
 | Francis Wrigley Hirst - 1926 - 654 pages
...have been fifty years making it, and have spared no pains, opportunity or expense, to make it what it is. While residing in Paris, I devoted every afternoon...principal bookstores, turning over every book with my own hand, and putting by everything which related to America, and indeed whatever was rare and valuable... | |
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While residing in Paris, I devoted every afternoon I was disengaged, for a summer or two, in examining all the principal bookstores, turning over every book with my own hand, and putting by everything which related to America, and indeed whatever was... 
