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... died , and he , consequent- ly , succeeded to the title and family estates . On his return home in October , 1796 , he sent a challenge to Captain Vancouver , for the ill treatment he alleged he had received while under his command ...
... died , and he , consequent- ly , succeeded to the title and family estates . On his return home in October , 1796 , he sent a challenge to Captain Vancouver , for the ill treatment he alleged he had received while under his command ...
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... died , he left him his posthumous works and a legacy in money . Having lost his friend , Mr. Swift endeavored to procure some preferment in England , but was disappointed : he was , however , appointed chaplain and private secretary to ...
... died , he left him his posthumous works and a legacy in money . Having lost his friend , Mr. Swift endeavored to procure some preferment in England , but was disappointed : he was , however , appointed chaplain and private secretary to ...
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... in the head , which increased toward the close of it , and brought on a total privation of reason , in which condition he died in 1745. In his lucid intervals he bequeathed the bulk of his fortune to JONATHAN SWIFT . 25.
... in the head , which increased toward the close of it , and brought on a total privation of reason , in which condition he died in 1745. In his lucid intervals he bequeathed the bulk of his fortune to JONATHAN SWIFT . 25.
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... dying three months before his birth , by which the manor of Wools- thorpe , of which his family had been in pos- session several years , became his heritage . His mother married again in a short time , but this new alliance did not ...
... dying three months before his birth , by which the manor of Wools- thorpe , of which his family had been in pos- session several years , became his heritage . His mother married again in a short time , but this new alliance did not ...
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... died , which was on the 20th March , 1727 , at the age of eighty - five . His obsequies were solemnized with consider- able pomp : the body lay in state at the Jeru- salem Chamber , and was escorted into West- minster Abbey by a long ...
... died , which was on the 20th March , 1727 , at the age of eighty - five . His obsequies were solemnized with consider- able pomp : the body lay in state at the Jeru- salem Chamber , and was escorted into West- minster Abbey by a long ...
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Page 317 - Jeffrcidos, on a battle between him and a turkey-cock ; and in 1638 was published a very small book, called The New Year's Gift, presented at court from the Lady Parvula to the Lord Minimus (commonly called Little Jeffery), her Majesty's servant, &c., written by Microphilus, with a little print of Jeffery prefixed.
Page 325 - Nash was certainly to be numbered in the beginning, only with this difference, that he wanted the corrupt heart too commonly attending a life of expedients ; for he was generous, humane, and honourable, even though by profession a gamester.
Page 369 - ... back. In short, this wandering tumour puzzled all the workmen about town, who found it impossible to accommodate so changeable a customer.
Page 173 - Elwes knew almost nothing of accounts, and never reduced his affairs to writing — he was obliged, in the disposal of his money, to trust much to memory — to the suggestions of other people still more.
Page 372 - Blush not, marble, to rescue from oblivion the memory of HENRY JENKINS : a person obscure in birth, but of a life truly memorable ; for he was enriched with the goods of nature, if not of fortune, and happy in the duration, if not variety, of his enjoyments ; and, tho...
Page 105 - ... would never have returned to his wife, if the money which he took with him, which was supposed to have been £1000 or £2000, had not been all spent: and he must have been a good economist, and frugal in his manner of living, otherwise his money would scarce have held out; for I imagine he had his whole fortune by him, I mean what he carried away with him in money or bank bills, and daily took out of his bag, like the Spaniard in Gil Bias, what was sufficient for his expenses.
Page 318 - ... at last, being provoked by Mr Crofts, a young gentleman of family, a challenge ensued, and Mr Crofts coming to the rendezvous armed only with a squirt, the little creature was so enraged that a real duel ensued, and the appointment being on horseback, with pistols, to put them more on a level, Jeffery, with the first fire, shot his antagonist dead.
Page 22 - The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown, and the police were put on their mettle to discover the unknown and daring murderer.
Page 372 - ... the partial world despised and disregarded his low and humble state, the equal eye of Providence beheld, and blessed it with a patriarch's health and length of days ; to teach mistaken man, these blessings were entailed on temperance, or, a life of labour and a mind at ease.
Page 103 - Howe was obliged to apply for an act of parliament to procure a proper settlement of her husband's estate, and a provision for herself out of it during his absence, as it was uncertain whether he was alive or dead : this act he suffered to be solicited and passed, and enjoyed the pleasure of reading the progress of it in the votes, in a little coffee-house, near his lodging, which he frequented. Upon his quitting his house and family in the manner I have mentioned, Mrs. Howe at first imagined, as...