The Life of the Late John Elwes, Esquire: Member in Three Successive Parliaments for Berkshire ...John Jarvis, 1791 - 111 стор. |
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Сторінка 84 - Extracted from the Registry of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. IN the Name of God. Amen. I...
Сторінка 20 - ... pocket, or any scraps of bread which he found; baggage he never took; then, mounting one of his hunters, his next attention was to get out of London, into that road where turnpikes were the fewest.
Сторінка 16 - And for fifteen years previous to this period, it was, that he was known in the fafhionable circles of London. He had always a turn for play, and it was only late in life, and from paying always, and not always being paid, that he conceived difguft at the inclination.
Сторінка 75 - To save fire, he would walk about the remains of an old green-house, or sit with a servant in the kitchen. During the harvest he would amuse himself with going into the fields to glean the corn, on the grounds of his own tenants; and they used to leave a little more than common to please the old gentleman, who was as eager after it as any pauper in the parish.
Сторінка 19 - ... wax lights, and waiters attendant on his call, he would walk out about four in the morning, not towards home, but into Smithfield, to meet his own cattle, which were coming to market from Haydon Hall, a farm of his in Essex.
Сторінка 86 - ... mind and memory, do make and publish this my last will and testament, hereby revoking all former wills by me at any time heretofore made.
Сторінка 46 - Elwes ; on the contrary, it seemed, at this time, to have attained additional meanness— and nearly to have reached that happy climax of poverty, which has, more than once, drawn on him the compassion of those who passed by him in the street.
Сторінка 11 - L which they had not asked for, and said, ' gentlemen, I do not want to take any of you, therefore, upon my honour, I will give you twenty minutes for your escape : after that time, nothing shall prevent me from seeing how my servant does.
Сторінка 47 - The minister, likewise, was well acquainted with it — and at any dinner of opposition, still was his apparel the same. The wits of the minority used to say, "that they had full as much reason as' the minister to be satisfied with Mr. Elwes — as he had the same habit with every body.
Сторінка 21 - Timms, his nephew, used to mention the following proof. A few days after he went thither, a great quantity of rain fell in the night : he had not been long in bed before he felt himself wet through ; and, putting his hand out of the clothes, found the rain was dropping...