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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: the year 1330, when he was probably near sixty, shews that he was about seven when at Hog's. Norton; and proves incontestibly, that to him and him alone, these ancient and fortunately discovered inscriptions refer. Having established their authenticity, it is easy to show that Mr. Whittington's name was not Richard, as the vulgar fondly imagine; R, and not M, being the initial of Richard; and we might perhaps have doubted between Matthew, Mathias, Moses, Mclchisedec or Mark; but the concluding W. of the last inscription seems to settle the matter in favour of Matthew, which is the only name that I know of in ordinary use which begins with M, and ends as all the world sees with a W.? I shall say little of an erroneous supposilion?built on the strength of the words /oo/, dunce,1' and stupid dog; and on the manifestly mistaken date, ?which would refer these characteristic sentences to a worthy alderman now alive; (with whose initials they do, indeed, by a strange accident agree.) Such a supposition is clearly false and untenable, as may be proved by one decisive observation, inter alia; that they appear to be the work of some jealous rival, displeased at Mr. Whiitinglon's superior ability: perhaps they were even engraved by a fraud on the parish furniture, after Mr. Whittington's rise had given some handle to envy; whereas it is well known and universally admitted, to be the happiness of the worthy alderman now alive, that no human being either ever did, or could envy him: ?this sets that important question asleep for ever. It may seem to some readers that these epithets, chapter{{Section 4?opprobria, as some may think them, ?do not redound to the credit of Mr. Alderman Whitting- ton's intellect; but even if they are not, as before suggested, the production of envy, ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217566810 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217566812 |
| Weight | 0.19 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.11 In |
| List Price | $10.80 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 48 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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