| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 528 pages
...Dr. Turner lived, and the little assistance he could derive from bis, contemporaries, he will appear to have exhibited uncommon diligence, and great erudition,...fully to deserve the character of an original writer. He also paid early attention to mineral waters, and to wines ; and wrote on both subjects. Jt appears... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 520 pages
...Dr. Turner lived, and the little assistance he could derive from his contemporaries, he will appear to have exhibited uncommon diligence, and great erudition,...fully to deserve the character of an original writer. He also paid early attention to mineral waters, and to wines; and wrote on both subjects. It appears... | |
| Eneas Mackenzie - Berwick-upon-Tweed (England) - 1825 - 550 pages
...Dr. Turner lived, and the little assistance he could derive from his contemporaries, he will appear to have exhibited uncommon diligence, and great erudition,...fully to deserve the character of an original writer. He also paid early attention to mineral waters, and to wines ; and wrote on both subjects. In his works,... | |
| Samuel Felton - Gardens - 1829 - 88 pages
...and diligent physition;" and of whom Dr. Pulteney, in reference to his Herbal, says, " he will appear to have exhibited uncommon diligence, and great erudition,...fully to deserve the character of an original writer." The terraces, conduits, fish ponds, and fountains, at Burghley. I gather this from the " Mornings in... | |
| John Hodgson - 1831 - 170 pages
...Tragus, when he published his first part of the Herbal, were the chief; in which view he will appear to have exhibited uncommon diligence and great erudition,...deserve the character of an original writer." " Our author paid early attention to mineral waters . He was probably the first who wrote on the baths at... | |
| Samuel Felton - Gardens - 1897 - 148 pages
...diligent physition ; ' and of whom Dr. Pulteney, in reference to his H&rbaU, says, • He will appear to have exhibited uncommon diligence and great erudition,...fully to deserve the character of an original writer.' The Duke of Somerset's at Sion House. Sir Edmund Anderson's at Harefield, who had ' a fa ire house,... | |
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