Eccentrics and eccentricities - Early works to 1800
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Erratics: by a sailor; containing rambles in Norfolk, and elsewhere. In which are interspersed, some observations on the late attempts to revive the Cromwellian observance of the sabbath. Together with some hints on the present pernicious mode of burying the dead; and a remedy proposed
Larwood, Joshua d. 1808.Date: 1800- E-books
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The strange and unaccountable life of the penurious Daniel Dancer, Esq. A miserable miser, Who died in a Sack, though worth upwards of - 3000. per Ann. with singular anecdotes of the famous Jemmy Taylor, the Southwark usurer, a character well known upon the Stock Exchange: to which is added, a true account of Henry Welby, Who lived invisible Forty-Four Years in Grub Street; with a sketch of the life of the Rev. George Harvest; Called the Absent Man; or, Parson and Player.
Date: 1797