 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 816 ページ
...human wretcliednefs, had not a • i •.'., a coat, or any kind of apparel, to put on ; the (heets in which he lay were carried to the pawn-broker's,...what he got by writing letters to his friends in the moil abject ftyle ; but was perhaps aiharaed to let this inftance of his diftrefs be known, which probably... | |
 | 1823 - 888 ページ
...extremity of human wretchedness, had not a shirt, a coat, or any kind of apparel, to put on ; the sheets in which he lay were carried to the pawn-broker's,...with no other covering than a blanket. He had little support but what he got by writing letters to his friends in the most abject style ; but was perhaps... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 ページ
...coat, or any kind of apparel to put on ; the sheets on which he lay were carried to the pawn-brokers, and he was obliged to be confined to his bed with no other covering than a blanket. He sat up in bed, we are told, with the blanket wrapt round him, through which he cut a hole larjje enough... | |
 | London and Middlesex Archaeological Society - 1870 - 862 ページ
...not," says another of his biographers, " a shirt, a coat, or any kind of apparel to put on. The sheets in which he lay were carried to the pawnbroker's, and he was obliged to be confined to bed, with no other covering than a blanket. He had little support but what he got by writing letters... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - 1884 - 326 ページ
...and he was obliged to be confined to bed with no other covering than a blanket. He had little support but what he got by writing letters to his friends in the most abject style. Whoever had seen him in this study must have thought the object singular enough.... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - 1885 - 306 ページ
...and he was obliged to be confined to bed with no other covering than a blanket. He had little support but what he got by writing letters to his friends in the most abject style. Whoever had seen him in this study must have thought the object singular enough.... | |
 | William Connor Sydney - 1891 - 428 ページ
...such a state of misery that he had not a shirt, a coat, or any kind of apparel to put on, the sheets in which he lay were carried to the pawnbroker's, and he was obliged to be confined to bed with no other covering than a blanket. He sat up in bed with the blanket wrapped about him. through... | |
 | H. G. Somerville - 1896 - 244 ページ
...of Imman wretchedness that he had not a shirt, a coat, or any kind of apparel to put on. The sheets in which he lay were carried to the pawnbroker's,...to his bed with no other covering than a blanket, and in this condition, thrusting his arm through a hole, he scribbled a quantity of verse for the Gentleman... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - 1897 - 362 ページ
...and he was obliged to be confined to bed with no other covering than a blanket. He had little support but what he got by writing letters to his friends in the most abject stvle. Whoever had seen him in this study must have thought the object singular enough.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1765 - 514 ページ
...extremity of human wretchednefs, had not a fhirt, a coat, or any kind of apparel to put on ; the fheets in which he lay were carried to the pawnbroker's,...what he got by writing letters to his friends in the moflabjeft ilyle, but was perhaps aihamed to let this inftance of his diftrefs be known, which probably... | |
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Boyse, reduced to the last extremity of human wretchedness, had not a shirt, a coat, or any kind of apparel, to put on ; the sheets in which he lay were carried to the pawn-broker's, and he was obliged to be confined to his bed with no other covering... 
