London, Volumes 5-6, Charles Knight & co., 1851, ... The British Museum, for example, is a striking case of this kind. Little, we may be sure, did the benevolent Sir Hans Sloane dream of this mighty establishment, when he, in effect, founded it, by directing in his will that his library of books and manuscripts, his collection of natural history and works of art, should be offered to the Parliament ...
Imperialism, art and restitution, John Henry Merryman, Cambridge University Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-521-85929-5, ... Political nationalism treats the presence of the Marbles in England, or in any other place than Greece, as an offense to Greeks and the Greek nation. Here the demand for the return of the Marbles is based on national pride ...
