This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 Excerpt: ...To woo fair virtue's form; But nurs'd on danger's flinty lap, And tutor'd by the storm I "When threatening tempests round him raged. And swelling billows heav'd, Ilis bark a wretched orphan seem'd. Of aid and hope bereav'd. PRESSING TO DEATH. 79 Tf through the clouds a golden gleam Broke sweetly from above, He bless'd ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 Excerpt: ...To woo fair virtue's form; But nurs'd on danger's flinty lap, And tutor'd by the storm I "When threatening tempests round him raged. And swelling billows heav'd, Ilis bark a wretched orphan seem'd. Of aid and hope bereav'd. PRESSING TO DEATH. 79 Tf through the clouds a golden gleam Broke sweetly from above, He bless'd the smiling emblem there Of charity and love. Around the glowing land he spread Warm pity's magic spell; And tender bosoms learn'd from him With softer sighs to swell. Beauty and wealth, and wit and power, Their various aid combin'd; And angels smiPd upon the work That Coram had design'd. Virtue and meekness mark"d his face "With characters benign; And Hogarth's colours yet display The lineaments divine. Our ground his ashes sanctify, Our songs his praise employs; His spirit with the blest above Its full reward enjoys!" Lord Tenterden lies buried in the chapel of the Foundling Hospital; in the course of the inscription written on his Lordship, he is stated to have been "born in very humble station, of a father who was prudent, and a mother who was pious." After enumerating the offices he filled, the memorialist adds, " Learn, reader, how much in this country may, under the blessing of God, be attained by honest industry.' PRESSING TO DEATH. This barbarous punishment was inflicted so lately as the year 1735, when, at the Sussex assizes, a man who pretended to be dumb and lame, was indicted for murder and robbery. He had been taken up on suspicion; several spots of blood, and part of the stolen property, Brownlow's Memoranda of the Foundling Hospital. being found upon him. When he was put to the bar, he would not speak or plead, though often urged to it. The sentence to be inflicted upon such as stand mute was ...
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