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Title: The cream of curiosity, being an account of certain historical and literary manuscripts of the XVIIth, XVIIIth & XIXth centuries
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Hine, Reginald Leslie, 1883-1949
Subjects: Great Britain -- History
Publisher: London : G. Routledge & sons, ltd. New York, E. P. Dutton & co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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lf. Was obligedto make several tacks before could get off the Frenchcoast. A fresh gale—was very sick. ^ Paul Atkinson (1656-1729), Franciscan friar. After holdingseveral important offices in his order was infamously betrayed tothe officers of the law by his maidservant for a reward of ;^ioo,under the penal statutes of li and 12 Wm. III. Apprehended in1698 and condemned to perpetual imprisonment. 28o The English Tourist in 1731 Dover (907), Canterbury, Sittenbourn, Rochester,had fine smelts for supper. Stroud Darfrod—thendrove on to the Starr on Shooters Hill; stayeddrinking a cool tankard and had the agreable pros-pect of London first from this place. Proceeded andby six oclock on 22nd September arrived at theCross Keys Inn in Grace Church Street Londonfrom whence we took a Hackney Coach home toCastle Yard, I praise God, in good health whichconcludes the eighth days journey from Paris andnine hundred and seventy-seaven miles, our intirewhole travels in seaven weeks and two dayes.
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» I ~ ««J>TP« »<B1«»»0wl A VERY WISE AND DISCREET MAN A HE PRECISE HYPOCRITE IF you were to extract from Earles Micro-cosmographie his characters of The meerecomplimental man, The meere gull-citizen andThe She Precise hypocrite, turn the last named intothe masculine gender, and mix the whole together,you would compound a foolish, whimsical beingvery like the one whose diary, or a fragment of it,follows. How the Jacobean bishop would haveloved this man for a model! In his pithy phrasinghe would have pictured him for all time. In fact,though the diary gives a speaking likeness of theliving man I feel sometimes as if he were too goodto be true ; an oddity from some old book ; acuriosity for collectors ; a piece so rare we shall notlook upon his like again. For think, where nowadays, or even in the yearof grace 1767, will you find another soul complainingof the city of St Albans that it is too gay andchoosing rather to live at Amersham, in whosestreets respectability stalks

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