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" Think not, indignant reader His life useless to mankind: PROVIDENCE Favoured, or rather connived at, His execrable designs, That he might remain To this and future ages, A conspicuous proof and example Of how small estimation Exorbitant wealth is held... "
The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer - Page 39
1732
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The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer, Volume 1

English essays - 1732 - 552 pages
...could cheat without the Maik of Honcfty ; Who could retain his primaeval Meannefs After being poflcfs'd of 10,000 Pounds a Year ; And who, having done, every...what he had not done. Think not, indignant Reader, HiiLife ufelefe to Mankind. PROVIDENCE Favoured, or rather connived at His extcrable Dcfigns, That...
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The Criminal Recorder: Or, Biographical Sketches of Notorious ..., Volume 1

Crime - 1804 - 508 pages
...the mask of honesty ; Who would retain his primaeval meanness, After being possessed of ten thousand pounds a year: And who, having done, every day of...Something worthy of a gibbet, Was once condemned to one. Think not, indigent reader His life useless to mankind : PRoVIDENCE Favoured, or rather connived at,...
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Portraits, Memoirs, and Characters, of Remarkable Persons, from ..., Volume 3

James Caulfield - Biography - 1820 - 386 pages
...honesty; who could retain his primeval meanness after being possessed of ten thousand pounds a-year, and who having done, every day of his life, something...had not done. Think not, indignant reader, his life useless to mankind; providence favored, or rather connived at his execrable designs, that he might...
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The Newgate Calendar: Comprising Interesting Memoirs of the Most Notorious ...

Andrew Knapp, William Baldwin (Attorney at law) - Crime - 1824 - 528 pages
...would cheat without the mask of honesty ; Who would retain his primeval meanness After being possessed of 10,000 pounds a year ; And who having done, every...of a gibbet. Was once condemned to one For what he hod not dune. Think not, indicnant render, His life nselew In mankind. PROVIDENCE Favoured, or nither...
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Biographical Sketches of Eccentric Characters

Characters and characteristics - 1832 - 644 pages
...honesty; Who would retain his primeval meanness, After being possessed of ten thousand pounds a year, Ajid who. having done, every day of his life, Something worthy of a gibbet, Was ouce condemned to one. Think not, indignant reader, His life useless to mankind ; PROVIDENCE Favored,...
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Lives of Twelve Bad Men: Original Studies of Eminent Scoundrels by Various ...

Thomas Seccombe - Crime - 1894 - 476 pages
...would cheat without the mask of honesty ; Who would retain his primeval meanness After being possessed of 10,000 pounds a year : And who having done, every...of a gibbet, Was once condemned to one For what he could not do.1 Think not, indignant reader, His life useless to mankind ; PROVIDENCE Favoured or rather...
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Book News, Volume 13

Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1895 - 602 pages
...through a legal quibble, suffered torture worse than death; and the other, according to his epitaph, "having done every day of his life something worthy of a gibbet, was condemned to one." Though offence's gilded hand did shove by justice, he 'died offering ^30,000 for...
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