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Wonderful Characters; Comprising Memoirs and Anecdotes of the Most Remarkable Persons, of Every Age and Nation


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: plentiful supply. From hence he went to New York, where going on board a vessel belonging to Captain Ilogers, he set sail for England; and after having prevented bis being pressed on board a man of war, by pricking his hands and face, and rubbing them with bay-salt and gunpowder, to give him the appearance of the small-pox, safely landed at Bristol, and soon rejoined his wife and begging companions. Here terminates the narrative of the adventures of this extraordinary person, who, with uncommon talents and the greatest advantages, connexions, and interest, might have figured in the highest and most respectable walks of life. What became of him afterwards is unknown, but he is said to have died about the year 1770, aged 77. JOHN ELWES, ESQ. Of all the passions that reign in the human breast, avarice, under certain circumstances, is- one of the most unaccountable. That the man who has once felt the miseries of poverty, should, on the acquisition of wealth, exhibit a disposition somewhat more than frugal, cannot appear surprising. It is but just to ascribe it to solicitude to prevent a recurrence of the evils to which he was once exposed. But how shall we explain the existence of that inordinate propensity to accumulate, which sometimes marks the character of persons, born in the lap of riches, and succeeding, without any exertion of their own, to the possession of almost boundless wealth. Such was the case of John Elwes?a name which has become proverbial in the annals of avarice?the circumstances of whose remarkable life incontestibly prove that not vast heaps of hoarded gold, or wide-extended possessions, can give happiness and content to such ai want spirit to make use of them. Who would exchange the feelings with the scanty fortune of the man of Ross, elebrated by Pope..


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  • ISBN-13: 9781458952400
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 94
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1458952401
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 181 gr


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