The Lives and Portraits of Remarkable Characters, Drawn from the Most Authentic SourcesW. Lewis, 1819 |
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... frequently saw young children exposed in the streets . It was by contemplating the miseries of these little sufferers , that he formed the idea of establishing the Foundling Hospital , for the re- ception of poor foundlings ; and ...
... frequently saw young children exposed in the streets . It was by contemplating the miseries of these little sufferers , that he formed the idea of establishing the Foundling Hospital , for the re- ception of poor foundlings ; and ...
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... frequently found lamentably fallible ; even the strongest have failed . They may rise to the utmost degree of probability , yet they are but probability VOL . II . D still . Why need I name to your lordship the EUGENE ARAM . 21.
... frequently found lamentably fallible ; even the strongest have failed . They may rise to the utmost degree of probability , yet they are but probability VOL . II . D still . Why need I name to your lordship the EUGENE ARAM . 21.
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... frequently grow large in old age , but which were then supposed to be teats to suckle imps . His general proof was by tying the thumbs and toes of suspected persons , about whose waist he fast- ened a cord , the ends of which were held ...
... frequently grow large in old age , but which were then supposed to be teats to suckle imps . His general proof was by tying the thumbs and toes of suspected persons , about whose waist he fast- ened a cord , the ends of which were held ...
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... frequently been a confederate , and robbed with the above - men- tioned convicted felons , VII . " That in order to carry on these vile practices , to gain some credit with the ignorant multitude , he usually carried a short silver ...
... frequently been a confederate , and robbed with the above - men- tioned convicted felons , VII . " That in order to carry on these vile practices , to gain some credit with the ignorant multitude , he usually carried a short silver ...
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... frequent ex- cursions to Newmarket ; but be never engaged on the turf . A kindness , however , which he performed there , should not pass altogether unnoticed . Lord Abingdon , who was slightly known to Mr. Elwes , in Berkshire , had ...
... frequent ex- cursions to Newmarket ; but be never engaged on the turf . A kindness , however , which he performed there , should not pass altogether unnoticed . Lord Abingdon , who was slightly known to Mr. Elwes , in Berkshire , had ...
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Página 14 - ... some attention; because, my lord, that any person, after a temperate use of life, a series of thinking and acting regularly, and without one single deviation from sobriety, should plunge into the very depth of profligacy precipitately and at once, is altogether improbable and unprecedented, and absolutely inconsistent with the course of things.
Página 48 - Some only for not being drown'd, And some for sitting above ground Whole days and nights, upon their breeches, And feeling pain, were hang'd for witches ; And some for putting knavish tricks Upon green geese and turkey-chicks, Or pigs that suddenly deceast Of griefs unnatural, as he guest ; Who after proved himself a witch, And made a rod for his own breech...
Página 14 - I find myself charged with the highest crime, with an enormity I am altogether incapable of; a fact, to the commission of which there goes far more insensibility of heart, more profligacy of morals, than ever fell to my lot ; and nothing possibly could have admitted a presumption of this nature but a depravity not inferior to that imputed to me. However, as I stand indicted at your lordship's bar, and have heard what is called evidence adduced in...
Página 15 - ... before, I had been confined to my bed, and suffered under a very long and severe disorder, and was not able, for half a year together, so much as to walk. The distemper left me indeed, yet slowly and in part ; but so macerated, so enfeebled, that I was reduced to crutches...
Página 20 - ... chance exposed ? And might not a place where bones lay be mentioned by a person by chance as well as found by a labourer by chance ? Or is it more criminal accidentally to name where bones lie, than accidentally to...
Página 19 - About the same time, and in another field, almost close to this borough, was discovered also, in searching for gravel, another human skeleton ; but the piety of the same worthy gentleman ordered both...
Página 17 - The place of their depositum, too, claims much more attention than is commonly bestowed upon it ; for of all places in the world, none could have mentioned any one wherein there was greater certainty of finding human bones than a hermitage, except he should point out a churchyard ; hermitages, in time past, being not only places of religious retirement, but of burial too...
Página 109 - but Mr. -, I have one thing to say to you — in my opinion my legs are not much hurt ; now you think they are— so I will make this agreement: I will take one leg, and you shall take the other; you shall do what you please with yours, and', I will do nothing to mine ; and I will wager your bill that my leg gets well the first.
Página 17 - ... being not only places of religious retirement, but of burial too. And it has scarce or never been heard of, but that every cell now known contains or contained these relics of humanity — some mutilated, and some entire.
Página 16 - Permit me next, my lord, to observe a little upon the bones which have been discovered. It is said (which, perhaps, is saying very far), that these are the skeleton of a man. It is possible, indeed, it may ; but is there any certain known criterion which incontestably distinguishes the sex in human bones.