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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Late John Coakley Lettsom ...: With ... - Page 23
by Thomas Joseph Pettigrew - 1817
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 87, Part 1; Volume 121

Early English newspapers - 1817 - 710 pages
...heel, and hastily demanded, who was the person that spit in his face •' Sometimes he would order tome of the patients, on his „ visiting-days, to precede...behaviour: ' Know,' said he, 'thou art a servant of tliis Charity.' — On one occasion his an^er was excited te a very high pitch by the answer which...
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London Medical and Physical Journal, Volume 38

1817 - 556 pages
...person that spit in his face? Sometimes he would order some of the patients, on his visiting days, to precede him with brooms to clear the way, and prevent...nearly approaching him. On one of these occasions, llichard Chester, one of the governors, upbraided him for his cruel behaviour: 'Know,' said he, ' thou...
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The Gallery of Engravings, Volume 1

George Newenham Wright, Charles Henry Timperley - Engraving - 1845 - 276 pages
...artificial heel, and demanded who had spit in his face. Sometimes he ordered a few of the patients to precede him with brooms, to clear the way, and prevent the others from too nearly approaching him. Richard Chester, one of the Governors, upbraided him for this...
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New General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 1

Hugh James Rose - Biography - 1848 - 522 pages
...person that spit in his face. Sometimes he would order some of the patients, on his visiting days, to precede him with brooms, to clear the way, and...approaching him. On one of these occasions, Richard Chester, a quaker, one of the governors of the hospital, upbraided him for his cruel behaviour : "Know," said...
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A new general biographical dictionary, projected and partly ..., Volume 1

New general biographical dictionary - 1848 - 524 pages
...person that spit in his face. Sometimes he would order some of the patients, on his visiting days, to precede him with brooms, to clear the way, and...approaching him. On one of these occasions, Richard Chester, a quaker, one of the governors of the hospital, upbraided him for his cruel behaviour : "Know," said...
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A New General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 1

Hugh James Rose - Biography - 1853 - 522 pages
...spit in his face. Sometimes he would order some of the JMitients, on his visiting days, to precede inn with brooms, to clear the way, and prevent the patients...approaching him. On one of these occasions, Richard Chester, a quaker, one of the governors of the hospital, upbraided him for his cruel behaviour : " Know," said...
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The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside

Mark Akenside - 1863 - 462 pages
...person that spit in his face ? Sometimes he would order some of the patients, on his visiting days, to precede him with brooms to clear the way, and prevent...the Governors, upbraided him for his cruel behaviour : 6 Know,' said he, ' thou art a servant of this Charity.' On one occasion his anger was excited to...
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The Poetical Works of Akenside and Beattie: With a Memoir of Each ...

Mark Akenside - 1880 - 792 pages
...person that spit in his face ? Sometimes he would order some of the patients, on his visiting days,- to precede him with brooms to clear the way, and prevent...behaviour : ' Know," said he, ' thou art a servant of this Churity.' On one occasion his anger was excited to a very high pitch, by the answer which Mr. Baker,...
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Dictionary of National Biography: Vols. 1-63. From the beginnings to 1900

Great Britain - 1885 - 492 pages
...and carried a long sword. He would order the servants (at Christ's Hospital), on his visiting dsiys, to precede him with brooms to clear the way, and prevent the patients from Inn nearly approaching him.' [Life in J'llmsim's Lives ,.f the Toots: Life prefixed t., the Works ly...
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St. Giles of the Lepers

Edward Codrington William Grey - Bloomsbury (London, England) - 1905 - 272 pages
...wig, and carried a long sword. He would order the servants (at his hospitals) on his visiting days, to precede him with brooms to clear the way and prevent the patients from too nearly approaching him." Some years ago, one bright spring afternoon, I came upon Canon Nisbet in conversation with a man who...
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