 | Walter Thornbury - 1881 - 604 σελίδες
...sight was dreadful. Some people were threatened. Mn> Strahan advised me to take care of myself. . . . Several chapels have been destroyed, and several inoffensive Papists have been plundered; эut the high sport was to burn the gaols. This was a good rabble trick. The debtors and the criminals... | |
 | Agnes M. Stewart - 1883 - 300 σελίδες
...published directing us to keep our servants within doors, as the peace was soon to be preserved by force. Several chapels have been destroyed, and several inoffensive...been plundered ; but the high sport was to burn the gaols. This was a good rabble trick, the debtors and the criminals were all set at liberty, but of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 626 σελίδες
...Tower. Mr. John Wilkes was this day in my neighbourhood, to seize the publisher of a seditious paper. " Several chapels have been destroyed, and several inoffensive...been plundered; but the high sport was to burn the gaols. This was a good rabble trick. The debtors and the criminals were all set at liberty; but of... | |
 | Rough diamond - 1884 - 390 σελίδες
...assaulting unoffending citizens. "The high sport" was, as Dr. Johnson records, " to burn the gaols. This was a good rabble trick. The debtors and the criminals were all set at liberty." Some half dozen of the London prisons were thus treated. The Fleet, the Marshalsea, and Newgate were... | |
 | James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 490 σελίδες
...Mr. John Wilkes was this day1 in my neighbourhood, to seize the publisher of a seditious paper.' ' Several chapels have been destroyed, and several inoffensive...been plundered ; but the high sport was to burn the gaols. This was a good rabble trick. The debtors and the criminals were all set at liberty ; but of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 σελίδες
...Tower. Mr. John Wilkes was this day in my neighbourhood, to seize the publisher of a seditious paper. " Several chapels have been destroyed, and several inoffensive...been plundered, but the high sport was to burn the gaols. This was a good rabble trick. The debtors and the criminals were all set at liberty ; but of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 488 σελίδες
...security5. But the history of the last week would fill you with amazement, it is without any modern example. Several chapels have been destroyed, and several inoffensive...been plundered, but the high sport was to burn the 1 Piossi Letters, ii. 152. * ' I bless every soldier I see,' wrote Dr. Burney to his daughter ; ' we... | |
 | Lady Randolph Spencer Churchill - 1899 - 312 σελίδες
...with me, yet I comfort myself with his being quite safe, and evry body says the worst is past. . . . 1 'The high sport was to burn the jails. This was a good rabble trick.'— JOHNSON. ! Jeffrey, Lord Amherst (1717-97), the conqueror of Canada (June 8, 1780) 8'* of June. I am... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 σελίδες
...Tower. Mr John Wilkes was this day in my neighbourhood, to seize the publisher of a seditious paper. " n m " gaols. This was a good rabble trick. The debtors and the criminals were all set at liberty; but of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 546 σελίδες
...Mr. John Wilkes was this day in my neighbourhood, to seize the publishers of a seditious paper." " Several chapels have been destroyed, and several inoffensive...have been plundered : but the high sport was to burn thvgaols. This was a good rabble trick. The debtors and criminals were all set at liberty ; but of... | |
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Several chapels have been destroyed, and several inoffensive papists have been plundered ; but the high sport was to burn the gaols. This was a good rabble trick. The debtors and the criminals were all set at liberty ; but of the criminals, as has always... 
