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Old and New London
… stir out of Whitefriars, but there inveigles young men of fortune, and helps them to goods and money upon great … into the country. Number two, Shamwell, is a young man of fortune, who, ruined by Cheatley, has turned decoy-duck, and … first time a simple play, and ill acted, only it was my fortune to sit by a most pretty and most ingenuous lady, …
Survey of London
… Prince with the basket, saying that it had been his good fortune to take the butterfly alive, & that he would sooner …
Old and New London
… quite a young man, in the reign of James I., "to make his fortune at Court;" to which, it would seem, he brought … himself as well in his prosperous as in his adverse fortune. The recorded facts are highly honourable to him and …
Old and New London
… by Felton, and the man who, having squandered a princely fortune, and thrown away a splendid position, became the butt … at, which he valued more, There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands … yet he died in comparative poverty, having wasted his fortune to a mere nothinghe who had been literally "the lord …
Magna Britannia
… to whom he bequeathed almost the whole of his princely fortune. Whitehaven passed under the will of Sir James …