La Belle Assemblée: Being a Curious Collection of Some Very Remarkable Incidents which Happen'd to Persons of the First Quality in France, Volume 1

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D. Browne, J. Brotherton, 1749
 

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Page 230 - Falisca, a schoolmaster contrived to lead the children of the principal men of the city into the Roman camp. The novelty of such baseness surprised them, and they so much abhorred it, that they immediately ordered the arms of the traitor to be tied, and giving each of the scholars a whip, bade them whip their master back to the city, and then return to their parents. The boys executed their task so well in this instance...
Page 61 - Hogan had not been many months in the possession of a situation from which he looked forward to honour and emolument, when he was seized with a fever (the effect of the climate), which in a few days put a period to his life. He was a native of the county of Limerick, in Ireland. — Lately, in Vernon Place, London, Charles Combe, MDFRS aged 73. —Lately, at Kensington, the Rev^ William Beloe, rector of Allhallows, and prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral. Mr B. was a native of Norwich, where his father...
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Page 230 - ... rods, and bid them whip him back to the city, and return to their parents. They did fo accordingly, and in fo rigorous a manner, that the wretch died under their blows, as they entered the city. The...
Page 270 - Together with a particular relation of a journey from the port of Moka to the court of the king of Yemen, in the second expedition, AD 1711, 1712, 1713.
Page 74 - Meafures which may defend it in all the various Changes of Life. A fplendid Fortune is ever attended by Luxury, whofe Companion is Coquetry. The Adoration of the Men, and the perpetual...
Page 75 - Relief, feek it from him who alone can extricate us out of the deepeft Diftrefs. If you love your...

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