The Romance of Wills and Testaments

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T. Fisher Unwin, 1912 - 256 pages
 

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Page 195 - Elizabeth by the Grace of God Queen of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith &c.
Page 219 - ... principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul into the hands of...
Page 15 - WHAT I shall leave thee, none can tell, But all shall say I wish thee well: I wish thee, Vin, before all wealth, Both bodily and ghostly health; Nor too much wealth nor wit come to thee, So much of either may undo thee.
Page 236 - ... conversation could all be retained, though the main of it she thinks she does,) she said to Mrs. Bargrave, she would have her write a letter to her brother, and tell him, she would have him give rings to such and such ; and that there was a purse of gold in her cabinet, and that she would have two broad pieces given to her cousin Watson. Talking at this rate, Mrs. Bargrave thought that a fit was coming upon her, and so placed herself...
Page 140 - Before I sigh my last gasp, let me breathe, Great Love, some legacies; here I bequeath Mine eyes to Argus, if mine eyes can see, If they be blind, then Love, I give them thee; My tongue to fame; to ambassadors mine ears; To women or the sea, my tears.
Page 69 - The horrour of death, which I had always observed in Dr. Johnson, appeared strong to-night. I ventured to tell him, that I had been, for moments in my life, not afraid of death; therefore I could suppose another man in that state of mind for a considerable space of time. He said, 'he never had a moment in which death was not terrible to him.
Page 96 - I give and I devise" (old Euclio said, And sighed) "my lands and tenements to Ned." "Your money, sir?" "My money, sir? what, all? Why— if I must" (then wept)— "I give it Paul.
Page 230 - ... and if he hath offended any other, to ask them forgiveness ; and where he hath done injury or wrong to any man, that he make amends to the uttermost of his power. And if he hath not before disposed of his goods, let him then be admonished to make his will, and to declare his debts, what he oweth, and what is owing unto him, for the belter discharging of his conscience, and the quietness of his executors.
Page 236 - this seems so impertinent that I cannot tell how to comply with it ; and what a mortifying story will our conversation be to a young gentleman ! " " Well," says Mrs Veal,
Page 36 - I do here profess, that as I have lived, so I desire, and by the grace of God resolve, to die, in the communion of the Catholic Church of Christ, and a true though unworthy son of the Church by law established in this kingdom.

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