John Boyd Thacher Collection
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 260
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1801 edition. Excerpt: ...enjoy, and collected a knot of Jacobins (we speak what we know) at her house, to whom Peter, who brought the necessary adjuncts, bawdry, and blasphemy, was probably a welcome accession. Still we do not think such an acquaintance a matter of exultation. Add to this, that the letters of this abandoned old man are--not a disgrace to himself, for that nothing can be--but a real reproach to her to whom they were written. In the last of them, Vol. IV. p. 190, he attempts to comfort this poor woman, then lying on her death-bed, by telling her, that though he is much older than she is, ytt he thinks the devil at a reat distance from him!!!" ergo, that he must needs Le at a greater distance from her. Eight days after this consolatory feint," she was called to appear before her Maker! At seventy, the devil, to use Peter Pindar's own words, can be at no rat distance from him. The hoary sinner will laujjh at this--but let him yet remember " while time is," the fate of' ffo evil servant: 4t The Lcr3 of that servant flialt come in a dajr. when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that lie is not aware-ot; and (hall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there.shall' be weeping and gnashing of teeth," We are glad to find, from these Memoirs, that Mrs. Robinson" stipulated her daughter should receive, out of tin-annuity (he.obtained from the P. of W. two hundred and fifty pounds a-ycar for life.-. '....... r't-, ., 's, !_, --! iv ''.L " Political Recollections relative to Egypt; containing Observations en its G?-, Jt vernment-under the Mamaluks; its Geographical Position; its intrinsic end extrinsic Resources; its relative Importance to England and Prance; 1 end its dangers...