Volume 2

Portraits and lives of remarkable and eccentric characters.

Date:
[1819?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Portraits and lives of remarkable and eccentric characters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    make one fire serve both. In short, whatever Cervantes or Moliere have pictured in their most sportive moods of avarice in the extreme, here might they have seen realised or surpassed. His shoes he never would suffer to be cleaned, lest they should be worn out the sooner. This extraordinary man retained his character- istic traits to his death, which happened Novem¬ ber 26,1789.