The Eccentric Mirror: Reflecting a Faithful and Interesting Delineation of Male and Female Characters, Ancient and Modern, who Have Been Particularly Distinguished by Extraordinary Qualifications, Talents, and Propensities, Natural Or Acquired ... with a Faithful Narration of Every Instance of Singularity, Manifested in the Lives and Conduct of Characters who Have Rendered Themselves Eminenty Conspicuous by Their Eccentricities ...James Cundee, 1807 - Abnormalities, Human |
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Page 16 - ... at last, being provoked by Mr Crofts, a young gentleman of family, a challenge ensued, and Mr Crofts coming to the rendezvous armed only with a squirt, the little creature was so enraged that a real duel ensued, and the appointment being on horseback, with pistols, to put them more on a level, Jeffery, with the first fire, shot his antagonist dead.
Page 33 - ... had been more exhausted, and could not immediately recover their legs, as others did when the word was given to RISE, fell to rise no more ; for they were instantly trod to death or suffocated. When the whole body sat down, they were so closely wedged together, that they were obliged to use many efforts before they could put themselves in motion to get up again.
Page 35 - But he was the first to joke upon his own ugliness ; and he once laid a wager with the earl of Chesterfield, that within a certain given time his lordship would not be able to produce so hideous a face in all London. After...
Page 35 - Hay wood, one of his contemporaries, '* he was so mingled with humility and charity, that he became his own pensioner, humbly submitting himself to that proportion of diet and clothes which he had bestowed on others.
Page 14 - London ; and there, likewise, to be set upon the pillory, with his head in the pillory, for the space of two hours, between the hours of eleven and one, on Saturday next ; in each...
Page 2 - I had ever the address to begin on that sleeve first, when I thought my reservoirs were sufficiently replenished ; and our mouths and noses often met in the contest.
Page 4 - ... must now complain of it, as unjust and unequal, That my Betrayer and Undoer, the first Cause of all my faults and Miscarriages (if they must be deemed such) should be advanced to Honour and Power in the Government, that punishes my Misfortunes with Stripes and Infamy.
Page 3 - Power somewhat to dispense with the Execution of them; I take the Liberty to say, That I think this Law, by which I am punished...
Page 10 - ... of books with which he was personally acquainted. One day the grand duke sent for him after he was his librarian, to ask him whether he could get him a book that was particularly scarce.