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" ... little better than a mendicant. Colonel Killigrew had wasted his best years, and his health and substance, in the pursuit of sinful pleasures, which had given birth to a brood of pains, such as the gout, and divers other torments of soul and body. "
The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine - Page 531
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Twice-told Tales, Volume 1

Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1861 - 302 pages
...and vvbaac greatest misfortune it was, that they were not long ago in their graves/! Mr. Medbourne, in the vigor of his age, had been a prosperous merchant,...pleasures, which had given birth to a brood of pains, such as the gout, and divers other torments of soul and body. Mr. Gascoigne was a ruined politician,...
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Twice-told Tales, Volume 1

Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1871 - 302 pages
...life, and whose greatest misfortune it was, that they were not long ago in their graves. Mr. Medbourne, in the vigor of his age, had been a prosperous merchant,...pleasures, which had given birth to a brood of pains, such as the gout, and divers other torments of soul and body. Mr. Gascoigne was a ruined politician,...
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The Maritime Monthly, Volume 3

1874 - 588 pages
...greatest misfortune it was, that they were not long ago in their graves. Mr. Medbourne, in the vigour of his age, had been a prosperous merchant, but had...a mendicant. Colonel Killigrew had wasted his best yearss and his wealth and substance, in the pursuit of sinful pleasures, which had given birth to a...
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Cassell's illustrated readings, Volume 2; Volume 67

Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 470 pages
...greatest misfortune it was, that they were not long r.go in their graves. Mr. Medbourne, in the vigour of his age, had been a prosperous merchant, but had...pleasures, which had given birth to a brood of pains, such a", the gout, and divers other torments of soul and body. Mr. Gascoigne was a ruined politician,...
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Hawthorne's Works: Twice-told tales

Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1876 - 592 pages
...^.~-\ whose greatest misfortune it was^ that they were not long ago in their graves. Mr. Medbourne, in the vigor of his age, had been a prosperous merchant,...pleasures, which had given birth to a brood of pains, such as the gout, and divers other torments of soul and body. Mr. Gascoigne was a ruined politician,...
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Twice-told Tales

Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1878 - 602 pages
...life, and whose greatest misfortune it was, that they were not long ago in their graves. Mr. Medbourne, in the vigor of his age, had been a prosperous merchant,...his all by a frantic speculation, and was now little hotter than a mendicant. Colonel Killigrew had wasted his best years, and his health and substance,...
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Hawthorne's Works, Volume 1

Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1879 - 270 pages
...life, and whose greatest misfortune it was that they were not long ago in their graves. Mr. Medbourne, in the vigor of his age, had been a prosperous merchant,...by a frantic speculation, and was now little better n : ,.».. than a mendicant. Colonel Killigrew had wasted his ' best years, and his health and substance,...
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Twice-told Tales, Volume 1

Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1879 - 270 pages
...age, had bcen n prosperous merehant, but hud lost his all by a frantic speculation, and was now liitle better than a mendicant. Colonel Killigrew had wasted his best years, and his health and substanee, in the pursuit of sinful pleasures, which had given birth to a brood of pains, such as the...
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Twice-told tales

Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1882 - 554 pages
...life, and whose greatest misfortune it was that they were not long ago in their graves. Mr. Medbourne, in the vigor of his age, had been a prosperous merchant,...pleasures, which had given birth to a brood of pains, such as the gout, and divers other torments of soul and body. Mr. Gascoigne was a ruined politician,...
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Twice-told tales

Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1882 - 560 pages
...life, and whose greatest misfortune it was that they were not long ago in their graves. Mr. Medbourne, in the vigor of his age, had been a prosperous merchant,...pleasures, which had given birth to a brood of pains, such as the gout, and divers other torments of soul and body. Mr. Gascoigne was a ruined politician,...
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