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The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon

The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
Henry Fielding
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“For it is very hard, my lord," said a convicted felon at the bar to the late excellent judge Burnet, "to hang a poor man for stealing a horse." "You are not to be hanged sir," answered my ever-honored and beloved friend, "for stealing a horse, but you are to be hanged that horses may not be stolen.”

Henry Fielding book The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon

The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon (1754), Introduction

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