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Travels in South Kensington, with notes on Decorative art and architecture in England (1882)

Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907 · London : Trübner & co. · leaf 137

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n which accompanied himcontained four giants, one unicorn, one dromedary, one camel, oneass, one dragon, six hobby-horses, and sixteen naked boys. Hereresided Sir Thomas More, Under-treasurer and Lord High Chan-cellor of England. Here he wrote his best works, and receivedthe visits of Henry VIH.… … justice to his house by com-paring it to the academy ofPlato, where numbers and ge-ometrical figures, and some-times moral virtues, were thesubjects of discussion; itwould be more just to callit a school and au exerciseof the Christian religion. Allits inhabitants, male and fe-male, applied their…

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