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Page xxxviii
With regard to the violence with which he endeavoured to escape , he declared
that it was not his design to fly from justice , or decline a trial , but to avoid the
expences and severities of a prison , and that he intended to have appeared at
the ...
With regard to the violence with which he endeavoured to escape , he declared
that it was not his design to fly from justice , or decline a trial , but to avoid the
expences and severities of a prison , and that he intended to have appeared at
the ...
Page xlvii
Compassion was indeed the distinguishing quality of Savage ; he never
appeared inclined to take advantage of weakness , to attack the defenceless , or
to press upon the falling : whoever was distressed was certain at least of his good
wishes ...
Compassion was indeed the distinguishing quality of Savage ; he never
appeared inclined to take advantage of weakness , to attack the defenceless , or
to press upon the falling : whoever was distressed was certain at least of his good
wishes ...
Page civ
that the allowance which was once paid him should be restored , but with whom
he never appeared to entertain for a moment the thought of soliciting a
reconciliation , and whom he treated at once with all the haughtiness of
superiority and all ...
that the allowance which was once paid him should be restored , but with whom
he never appeared to entertain for a moment the thought of soliciting a
reconciliation , and whom he treated at once with all the haughtiness of
superiority and all ...
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Contents
To the Right Hon Sir Robert Walpole | 151 |
To Mr John Dyer a Painter c | 159 |
To Aaron Hill Esq with the Tragedy of | 165 |
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| Title | Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ... Volumes 88-90 of Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill, John Hamilton Mortimer |
| Illustrated by | Thomas Stothard, John Hamilton Mortimer |
| Publisher | J. Bell, 1776 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 3 Oct 2006 |
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