 | Eccentric biography - 1801 - 352 pages
...without stockings or shoes, who told him that he was a poor unfortunate man, cast away near the Canaries, and taken up with eight others by a Frenchman the rest of the crew, sixteen in number, being drowned ; and that after having asked him some questions, lic guvc him a guinea and a suit of clothes?"... | |
 | G. H. Wilson - Biography - 1807 - 442 pages
...any shoes to his feet, who told him that he was apoor unfortunate man, cast away near tiie Canaries, and taken up with eight others, by a Frenchman, the rest of the crew, sixteen in number, being drowned ; and that after having asked him some questions, he gave him a guinea and a suit of cloaths.... | |
 | Bampfylde Moore Carew - Begging - 1812 - 330 pages
...shoulders, no shirt oiv his back, nor stockings to his legs, and scarce any shoes on his feet ; and that Ire asked him if he was mad ? to which he replied, No;...unfortunate man, cast away on the coast, and taken up, witli eight others, by a Frenchman, the rest of the - creiv, sixteen in number, being all drowned;... | |
 | Eccentrics and eccentricities - 1819 - 290 pages
...without stockings or shoes, who told him that he was a poor unfortunate man, cast away near the Canaries, and taken up with eight others by a Frenchman; the rest of the crew, sixteen in number, being drowned; and that after having asked him some questions, he gave him a guinea, and a suit of clothes... | |
 | Characters and characteristics - 1832 - 644 pages
...without stockings or shoes, who told him that he was a poor, unfortunate man cast away near the Canaries, and taken up, with eight others, by a Frenchman ; the rest of the crew, sixteen in number, being drowned ; and that, after having asked him some questions, he gave him a guinea and a suit of clothes.... | |
 | Characters and characteristics - 1832 - 512 pages
...without stockings or shoes, who told him that ho was a poor, unfortunate man cast away near the Canaries, and taken up, with eight others, by a Frenchman ; the rest of the crew, sixteen in number, being drowned ; and that, aller having asked him some questions, he gave him a guinea nnd a suit of clothes.... | |
 | Beggars - 1882 - 172 pages
...shirt on his back, nor stockings to his legs, and scarce any shoes to his feet ; and that he asked livm if he was mad ? to which he replied, No ; but a poor...guinea and a suit of clothes. Mr. Pleydell said he well remembered such a poor object. Well, replied our hero, that object was no other than the rat-catcher... | |
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Carew asked him, if he did not remember a poor wretch who met him one day at his stable door, with an old stocking round his head instead of a cap, and an old woman's ragged mantle on his shoulders, no shirt on his back, nor stockings to his legs, and... 