 | Henry Howe - 1845 - 596 strani
...; and a large pasture enclosed like a park, with about 150 acres adjoining, for occasional uses. I The building is beautiful and commodious, being first modelled by Sir Christopher Wren, adapted to the nature of the country by the gentlemen there ; and since it was burnt down it has been... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1852 - 614 strani
...outhouses ; and a large pasture enclosed like a park, with about 150 acres adjoining, for occasional uses. The building is beautiful and commodious, being first modelled by Sir Christopher Wren, adapted to the nature of the country by the gentlemen there ; and since it was burnt down it has been... | |
 | Goronwy Owen - 1876 - 346 strani
...description is by Hugh Jones, a name redolent of Wales, who was Professor of Mathematics there in the early part of the last century : — " The Colledge...ingenious direction of Governor Spotswood, and is notaltogether unlike Chelsea Hospital." At the time that Goronwy joined the College the number of boys... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education, United States. Office of Education - 1886 - 844 strani
...and a large pasture inclosed like a park, with about 150 acres of laud adjoining for occasional uses. The building is beautiful and commodious, being first modelled by Sir Christopher Wren, adapted to the nature of the country by the gentlemen there ; aud since it was burned down it has been... | |
 | 1904 - 492 strani
...<fc Biog., IV, 175. 11 The College ... is a lofty Pile of Brick Building adorn'd with a Cupola. . . . The Building is beautiful and commodious, being first modelled by Sir Christopher Wren, adapted to the Nature of the Country by the Gentlemen there ; and since it was burnt down, it has been... | |
 | Philip Alexander Bruce, William Glover Stanard - 1898 - 570 strani
...former. He says: "The college front which looks east is double and is 136 feet long. At the north end runs back a large wing, which is a handsome hall,...commodious, being first modelled by Sir Christopher Wren, adapted to the nature of the country by the gentlemen there; and since it was burnt down, it has been... | |
 | Ruth Hairston Early - 1907 - 454 strani
...scholars and outhouses ; and a large pasture enclosed, like a park, with about 150 acres adjoining." "The building is beautiful and commodious, being first...of the country by the gentlemen there; since it was burned down it has been rebuilt, altered and adorned by the ingenious direction of Governor Spotswood.... | |
 | Lyon Gardiner Tyler - 1907 - 304 strani
...a large Pasture enclosed like a ±*ark with about 150 Acres of land adjoining, for occasional Uses. The Building is beautiful and commodious, being first modelled by Sir Christopher Wren, adapted to the nature of the Country by the Gentlemen there; and since it was burnt down, it has been... | |
 | James Joseph McDonald - 1907 - 424 strani
...a ridge at the head springs of two great creeks " (King and Queen). " The William and Mary College building is beautiful and commodious, being first modelled by Sir Christopher Wren, and since it was burnt down it has been rebuilt nicely contrived, altered and adorned by the ingenious... | |
 | 512 strani
...introduced Renaissance architecture to Virginia by designing the main building of William and Mary College. "The building is beautiful and commodious, being first...the nature of the country by the gentlemen there," wrote Hugh Jones, one of the professors. To the colonists, accustomed to the Virginia cottage or the... | |
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The building is beautiful and commodious, being first modelled by Sir Christopher Wren, adapted to the nature of the country by the gentlemen there... 