Identifier: lifedeathbeingau00lewi (find matches)
Title: Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Lewin, Thomas Herbert, 1839-1916
Subjects: Death Portraits Celebrities
Publisher: London : Constable and Co. Ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ed unquestionableby a circumstance which occurred shortly after. This was an explosion in thepile like the report of a pistol. Had this happened sooner I should haveconcluded that gunpowder had been put among the materials to acceleratetheir combustion. The noise was followed by clamorous expressions of satis-faction amongst the spectators. Upon my asking a Hindoo near me what allthis meant, he said that the skull of one of the dead had burst, and that thepeople had shouted because this was a favourable omen. In a few momentsmore there was a similar explosion, followed by a like burst of satisfactionround the whole circle. The pile was soon after reduced to a burning heap offragments and ashes about two feet high, and not knowing what furtherhorrors this might disclose, I made my way through the people and returnedto my boat, but was quite unable to partake of the breakfast which my servantshad prepared for me, nor could I easily dismiss from my thoughts the spectaclewhich I had seen.
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._^?^^ ^^i^>^7?^(^Orty. zvn- nrt^^*>n* No. 72 The Death of George Washington. Born in Virginiaof the United States of America, the 22nd ofFebruary 1732. Died at Mount Vernon on thePotomac, the 14th December 1799. GEORGE WASHINGTON may be said to havedied twice: once at theclose of the War of Independence, his Great Adventure, when hetook leave of his army and retired into private life, and next whenhe finally quitted this mortal scene. In April 1783 peace was proclaimed, the war was over; and in Novemberthe principal officers of the American army assembled at Fraunces Tavernin New York to take a final leave of their great general, George Washington.On entering the room the General, finding himself surrounded by his oldcompanions-in-arms, who had shared with him so many scenes of hardshipand danger, who had humbled the pride of England and brought the greatwar to a close, was overcome with emotion and at first could hardly speak.At length, filling a glass of wine and turning upon

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