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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 Excerpt: ... ordinary expenditure. Mead 260 DOJV Ricardo Hojyeywater. died comparatively poor. The sale of his library, pictures, and statues, &c., realized about 16,000?., and he had other property amounting to about 35,000/.; but, after the payment of his debts, not more than 20,000/. remained to be divided amongst his four children. His only son, however, was amply provided for, having entered into the possession of 30,000/. under will of Dr. Mead's unmarried brother Samuel, an eminent barrister, and a Commissioner of the Customs. Fortunate beyond fortunate men, Mead had the great tnisfortune of living too long. His sight failed, and his powers underwent that gradual decay which is the saddest of all possible conclusions to a vigorous and dignified existence. Stories might be ferreted up of the indignities to which he submitted at thp hands of a domineering valet. Long, however, before he sunk into second childhood, he-excited the ridicule of the town by his vanity, and absurd pretensions to be a lady-killer. The extravagances of his amorous senility were whispered about; and eventually, some hateful fellow seized hold of the unpleasant rumors, and published them in a scandalous novelette, called "The Cornutor of Seventy-five; being a genuine narrative of the Life, Adventures, and Amours of Don Ricardo Honeywater, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians at Madrid, Salamanca, and Toledo, and President of the Academy of Sciences in Lapland; containing, amongst other most diverting particulars, his intrigue with Donna Maria W s, of Via Vinculosa--anglice, Fetter Lane--in the city of Madrid. Written, originally, in Spanish, by the author of Don Quixot, and translated into English by a Graduate of the College of Mecca, in Arabia." The"Puella fab...… (más)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 Excerpt: ... ordinary expenditure. Mead 260 DOJV Ricardo Hojyeywater. died comparatively poor. The sale of his library, pictures, and statues, &c., realized about 16,000?., and he had other property amounting to about 35,000/.; but, after the payment of his debts, not more than 20,000/. remained to be divided amongst his four children. His only son, however, was amply provided for, having entered into the possession of 30,000/. under will of Dr. Mead's unmarried brother Samuel, an eminent barrister, and a Commissioner of the Customs. Fortunate beyond fortunate men, Mead had the great tnisfortune of living too long. His sight failed, and his powers underwent that gradual decay which is the saddest of all possible conclusions to a vigorous and dignified existence. Stories might be ferreted up of the indignities to which he submitted at thp hands of a domineering valet. Long, however, before he sunk into second childhood, he-excited the ridicule of the town by his vanity, and absurd pretensions to be a lady-killer. The extravagances of his amorous senility were whispered about; and eventually, some hateful fellow seized hold of the unpleasant rumors, and published them in a scandalous novelette, called "The Cornutor of Seventy-five; being a genuine narrative of the Life, Adventures, and Amours of Don Ricardo Honeywater, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians at Madrid, Salamanca, and Toledo, and President of the Academy of Sciences in Lapland; containing, amongst other most diverting particulars, his intrigue with Donna Maria W s, of Via Vinculosa--anglice, Fetter Lane--in the city of Madrid. Written, originally, in Spanish, by the author of Don Quixot, and translated into English by a Graduate of the College of Mecca, in Arabia." The"Puella fab...
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