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Title: Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 7
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: Biography
Publisher: New York : Selmar Hess
Contributing Library: Kelly - University of Toronto

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tterton. Reader, judge not. If thou art a Christian, believethat he shall be judged by a Supreme Power; to that power alone is he nowanswerable. This document led to his dismissal by the attorney, who, in April 1770, re-turned to him his indentures. He at once set out for London with his manu-scripts and a small sum of money raised by a few persons in Bristol. Throughthe help of a female relative he got board at the house of one Walmsley, a plas-terer, in Shoreditch. In the history of literature nothing can be found so muchto be compassionated as the life led by him during those summer months in thegreat city. Plodding the streets from day to day with his manuscripts, livingmainly upon bread and water, not retiring to bed at night until near the mom-ing, and then seldom closing his eyes, yet in this time guilty of no sort of knownimmorality, sending home frequent letters abounding in expressions of most fer-vid hopes and in promises of silks and other fine things to the objects of his
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LUO Q. (J Z O>- UJ II- z o h-cc LlJ HH< I o u.O I < UJ Q UJ IH THOMAS CHATTERTON lU aftection, few cases could have appealed more piteously for help. The wits whomight have succored were out of town. Goldsmith lamented that he had notknown him. Johnson, with his stern kindness, if such a thing had been possible,could have saved him from despair. His deportment in the family with whomhe lived was without exception of decorum, although he showed that any move-ment toward familiarity with him was offensive. In his sore stress he began towrite papers upon politics, which were accepted by the partisan press. It was atthe time when the arbitrary encroachments of George III. were met by thejudacious courage of Mayor Beckford. Chatterton attached himself to the pop-ular side ; yet he seemed to have regret for the mistake in so doing, because ofthe comparative want of money in that party. In a long letter written to hissister, most of which is occupied with his great undertakings, he

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