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Thou mightest have been better employed, David! but the ruling passion was strong with thee, even in the jaws of death. Thou mightest have been better employed! but peace be with thee, I repeat, and the Almighty's grace and pardon." He makes the jockey speak in the same fashion of Thurtell whom he went to see hanged, according to an old agreement: "I arrived at H just in the nick of time.
Our illustration of the old church is taken from an engraving made to commemorate the burial of William Weare murdered by the notorious John Thurtell; an event that occurred in 1823, when Burton was two years old. There was another link between the Burtons and the Bakers, for Joseph Netterville's youngest brother, Francis, military surgeon in the 99th regiment, married Sarah Baker, Mr.
All degrees of men, from peers to paupers, betting incessantly. Keepers very watchful, and taking all good chances. An awful family likeness among the Keepers, to Mr. Palmer and Mr. Thurtell. Cunning, covetousness, secrecy, cold calculation, hard callousness and dire insensibility, are the uniform Keeper characteristics. Mr.
I shall tell the world of my parentage, my early thoughts and habits; how I became a sap-engro, or viper- catcher; my wanderings with the regiment in England, Scotland and Ireland . . . Then a great deal about Norwich, Billy Taylor, Thurtell, etc.; how I took to study and became a lav-engro. The third but I shall tell you no more of my secrets."
Palmer in the boxes P. S. The firm of Thurtell, Palmer, and Thurtell, in the boxes Centre. A most odious tendency observable in these distinguished gentlemen to put vile constructions on sufficiently innocent phrases in the play, and then to applaud them in a Satyr-like manner. Behind Mr.
Fauntleroy for forgery, and on Thurtell for the murder of Mr. Weare. The murder of Maria Marten, by Corder, in the year 1828, excited the greatest interest all over the country. People came from Wales and Scotland, and even from Ireland, to visit the barn where the body of the murdered woman was buried. Every one of them was anxious to carry away some memorial of his visit.
'The best man in England for twenty pounds! Thurtell. 'I am backer! Twenty pounds is a tempting sum, and there were men that day upon the green meadow who would have shed the blood of their own fathers for the fifth of the price. But the Gypsy was not an unknown man, his prowess and strength were notorious, and no one cared to encounter him.
Sheridan's Rivals, Act II. Sc. 1. The murder of Weare by Thurtell and Co., at Gill's-Hill in Hertfordshire . Sir Walter collected printed trials with great assiduity, and took care always to have the contemporary ballads and prints bound up with them. He admired particularly this verse of Mr. Hook's broadside "They cut his throat from ear to ear, His brains they battered in; His name was Mr.
In the twenty-fourth chapter Borrow makes Thurtell, the friend of bruisers, hint, with unconscious tragic irony, at his famous end by dying upon the gallows for the murder of Mr. William Weare. He tells the magistrate whom he has asked to lend him a piece of land for a prize-fight that his own name is no matter.
She was allowed to be the best wife posbill and so she was; but she killed her old husband in two years, as dead as ever Mr. Thurtell killed Mr. William Weare. She never got into a passion, not she she never said a rude word; but she'd a genius a genius which many women have of making A HELL of a house, and tort'ring the poor creatures of her family, until they were wellnigh drove mad.
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