Sales catalogue 611: Maggs Bros

Date:
1935
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/148
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 611: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Donne (John)—continued. purpose to make them up againe. That piece wh. he takes to himselfe ys cast in a mold, and in an instant made fitt for his use; for heaven ys not a place of pro- ficiency, but of present perfection. That piece wh. he leaves behinde in thys world, by the death of a part thereof, grows fitter and fitter for him, by the good use of hys corrections, and the intire conformity to hys wyll. Nothinge disproportions us, nor makes us so incapable of beinge reunited to those whom we loved here, as murmuringe or not advancinge the goodnes of him who hath remov’d them from hence, he would wonder, to see a man, who in a wood were left to hys liberty, to fell what trees he would, take onely the crooked, and leave the straytest trees; but that man hath perchance a ship to build, and not a house, and so hath use of that kinde of timber; let not us, who know that in hys house there are many mansions, but yet have no modell, no designe of yt buildinge, wonder at hys takinge in hys materials, why he takes the younge and leaves ye old, or why the sickly overlyve those that had better health.’’ It is interesting to note that Donne presented Lady Kingsmel with a copy of his ‘‘ Bianthanatos.’’ 615 DU BARRY (MARIE JEAN G. DE VAUBERNIER, COMTESSE, 1746- 1793). Mistress of Louis XV. Banished at the King’s death. Executed 1793. LETIER: SIGNED: I page, 8vo. Louvicennes, 15th October, 1786. £12 10s Referring to a loan from her brother-in-law. In June, 1793, Madame du Barry was arrested and in the following November brought before the tribunal, and accused of having squandered the country’s money, and conspired against the republic. Condemned to death 7th December, 1793, she was dragged to the scaffold the next day at 5 o’clock in the evening. On being sentenced she endeavoured to save her life by sham disclosures. She was conducted to the Hotel de Ville, and in the presence of the commune assembled to hear her, denounced two hundred and forty people whose names she had quoted haphazard and of whom several were seized and put to death after her evidence. In the cart which conducted her from the conciergerie to the ‘‘ Place de la Révolution,’’ she showed signs of despair, which alinost amounted to frenzy, and cried to the crowd which followed, ‘‘ Good people, save me, I am innocent.’’ On the scaffold she begged the executioner to prolong her miserable life. ‘‘ Monsieur le bourreau,’’ she cried, ‘‘ have pity on me, just one moment, only a moment.”’ 616 EDWARD I (1239-1307). King of England. DOCUMENT OF THE REIGN OF EDWARD I. Repaces vVeuutn 7.) 1202. £3 10s Grant of lands. 617 EDWARD II (1284-1327). King of England. DOCUMENT OF THIS REIGN. I page, vellum. Corby, June, 1323. £3 10s Grant of land from William Simon de Corby to his son Richard.
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