The Great and Eccentric Characters of the World, Their Lives and Their Deeds, Representing All Ages and All Countries: Comprising Heroes, Conquerors, Statesmen, Authors, Artists, Humorists, Misers, Mountebanks, Kings, Queens, Jugglers, Etc., Etc. and Other Curiosities of Human NatureHurst & Company, 1877 - 799 ページ |
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... called Mother Ross ... 427 Margaret Patten ...... 431 Samuel McPherson ....... 433 Old Boots of Ripon ....... 436 Patrick O'Brien , the Irish Giant ..... 437 The Living Skeleton ..... 440 Bampfylde Moore Carew , King of the Beggars ...
... called Mother Ross ... 427 Margaret Patten ...... 431 Samuel McPherson ....... 433 Old Boots of Ripon ....... 436 Patrick O'Brien , the Irish Giant ..... 437 The Living Skeleton ..... 440 Bampfylde Moore Carew , King of the Beggars ...
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... called , in most parts of Europe , Cingari or Zingari ; in Germany , Zigeuner ; and by the Spaniards , Gitanos . It is uncertain when they first appeared in Europe , but mention is made of them in Hungary and Germany so early as the ...
... called , in most parts of Europe , Cingari or Zingari ; in Germany , Zigeuner ; and by the Spaniards , Gitanos . It is uncertain when they first appeared in Europe , but mention is made of them in Hungary and Germany so early as the ...
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... called by that appellation , seemed to have for its object the indulgence of a systematic benevolence . Mr. Guy was the founder of that excellent institution in the borough of Southwark , called after his name , Guy's Hospital . The ...
... called by that appellation , seemed to have for its object the indulgence of a systematic benevolence . Mr. Guy was the founder of that excellent institution in the borough of Southwark , called after his name , Guy's Hospital . The ...
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... called the Court of Blood . He was himself president . He summoned the Prince of Orange , and all the other nobles and citizens who had fled from the country , to appear before his tribunal , under th penalty of the confiscation of ...
... called the Court of Blood . He was himself president . He summoned the Prince of Orange , and all the other nobles and citizens who had fled from the country , to appear before his tribunal , under th penalty of the confiscation of ...
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... called for his breakfast of minced veal , he ate heartily of it , and drank some wine and water , to the health of his surrounding friends . The coffin , with his name and age , and decorated with ornaments proper to his rank , being ...
... called for his breakfast of minced veal , he ate heartily of it , and drank some wine and water , to the health of his surrounding friends . The coffin , with his name and age , and decorated with ornaments proper to his rank , being ...
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516 ページ - I received your foolish and impudent letter. Any violence offered me I shall do my best to repel ; and what I cannot do for myself, the law shall do for me. I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.
654 ページ - It appeared to me like entering a city of giants who, after a long conflict, were all destroyed, leaving the ruins of their various temples as the only proofs of their former existence.
526 ページ - I went over to France with a view of prosecuting my studies in a country retreat ; and I there laid that plan of life which I have steadily and successfully pursued. I resolved to make a very rigid frugality supply my deficiency of fortune, to maintain unimpaired my independency, and to regard every object as contemptible, except the improvement of my talents in literature.
558 ページ - I find his Grace my very good Lord indeed, and I believe he doth as singularly favour me as any subject within this realm ; howbeit, son Roper, I may tell thee, I have no cause to be proud thereof ; for if my head would win him a castle in France (for then there was war between us) it should not fail to go.
188 ページ - Son William, if you and your friends keep to your plain way of preaching, and keep to your plain way of living, you will make an end of the priests to the end of the world.
517 ページ - The doctor, having first asked him if he could bear the whole truth, which way soever it might lead, and being answered that he could, declared that, in his opinion, he could not recover without a miracle. " Then," said Johnson, " I will take no more physic, not even my opiates ; for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded."^) In this resolution he persevered, and, at the same time, used only the weakest kinds of sustenance.
627 ページ - Dryden, whose education was more scholastic, and who before he became an author had been allowed more time for study, with better means of information. His mind has a larger range, and he collects...
529 ページ - Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.
668 ページ - ... quarrels; you will be obliged for maintenance to do any thing for any body; your very talents will depart for want of hope and encouragement, and you will go out of the world fretted, disappointed, and ruined.
494 ページ - I assure you, my dear sir, that you truly hurt me with your pecuniary parcel. It degrades me in my own eyes. However, to return it would savour of affectation ; but as to any more traffic of that debtor and creditor kind, I swear by that honour which crowns the upright statue of Robert Burns's integrity — on the least motion of it, I will indignantly spurn the by-past transaction, and from that moment commence entire stranger to you.