"Topographer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to the leadership are supported by that respectable topographer Dr Skene Keith—probably on account of his own adventurous ascent of that turbulent stream, which we shall give in his own words, merely premising that we suspect he was mistaken in his discovery that the well he saw is called ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 • Various
... emigrants; now I want to go there. I should not make a bad South-American planter, and I should take my natural daughter, Allegra, with me, and settle. I wrote, at length, to Hobhouse, to get information from Perry, who, I suppose, is the best topographer and trumpeter of the ...
— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. IV - With His Letters and Journals • Thomas Moore
... titles of books and pamphlets about London are many purely historical, and many of too low a kind to rank under the head of topography and history." Thus the design of Oldys, in forming this elaborate collection, is condemned by trying it by the limited object of the topographer's view. This catalogue remains a desideratum, were it printed entire as collected by Oldys, not merely for the topography of the metropolis, but for its relation to its manners, domestic annals, events, and persons connected with ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli |
