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The lives of Andrew Robinson Bowes, Esq., and the Countess of Strathmore, written from thirty-three years' professional attendance, from letters, and other well authenticated documents / By Jesse Foot.

Jesse Foot

Date:: [between 1810 and 1815]

Credit: The lives of Andrew Robinson Bowes, Esq., and the Countess of Strathmore, written from thirty-three years' professional attendance, from letters, and other well authenticated documents / By Jesse Foot. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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enlarged their felicity, fortified their virtue, nor shielded their lives from the miseries consequent to vicious habits, unbounded passions, and lawless per- petrations. That neither scholastic discipline, the great mass of morality contained in the English li- brary, the doctrine from the pulpit, nor the exhorta- tion and example of honourable and anxious friends, could make the smallest impression upon their nature, or stem that career which was by each of them so libidinously pursued; a career almost unknown till now, in a country raised to the highest state of civi- lization, and where every advantage was at their command; where they, situated on the summit of fortune, could have beheld the fates not without com- miseration of those whose vices were incurred by the positive force of narrow necessity. Neither of them received one single check from any compunctious visitings of nature ; neither of them had disciplined their minds by the strict observance of any rule of right; both of them appeared as if they had been taken from a land not yet ina state of civilization, and dropped by accident where they have been found. Rather than that such extraordinary charac- ters should be lost to society, I shall endeavour to rescue them from the gulph of oblivion, and to hold them up to the indignation and scorn of af- frighted and insulted virtue. Of A. R. Bowzs I am about to speak first. By his Majesty’s pleasure he. assumed the name of Bowes instead of his native name, and as his original name is not seen in his signature, I have no right to dis- turb it; for if I did, I must expose his place of na-

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