Remarkable occurrences in the life of Jonas Hanway : comprehending an abstract of his travels in Russia, and Persia; a short history of the rise and progress of the charitable and political institutions founded or supported by him; several anecdotes, and an attempt to delineate his character / By John Pugh.

Pugh, John.

Date:: 1798

Credit: Remarkable occurrences in the life of Jonas Hanway : comprehending an abstract of his travels in Russia, and Persia; a short history of the rise and progress of the charitable and political institutions founded or supported by him; several anecdotes, and an attempt to delineate his character / By John Pugh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$[ *81 ] To one of his books written for the ufe of the poor he prefixed a defcription of the frontifpiece ; in which he fays to the gentle reader—Here you fee the grafs “ grow and the Iheep feed.”—The Re- viewers faftened on this unfortunate fen- tence. “ We remember>” faid they (I quote from memory after a lapfe of feveral years) “ a miller who quitted his trade to “ take a public houfe, and fent for a “ painter to paint him the fign of the ^ mill. ‘ I miiji have the miller look^ ‘ ing out of the zvindozv.* It (hall be dejne, faid the painter. “ But I was ne^ \ver feen to be idle: You viujt make “ him pop his head in if any one looks ai “ him. This alfo the artifi: promhed:^ and brought home the fign. “ ’Tis all ‘‘ well; but where’s the miller ?” “ Sir, he popped his head in when you looked.”— Even fo, faid the Reviewers, when we look on the benevolent author’s frontifpiece, the grafs ceafes to groWy and the thcep leave otif feeding. Among$

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