The Lion Ed By R Carlile

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1828 edition. Excerpt: ... but even here, his insatiable rancour has pursued me. It was known that I could only be supported by the voluntary subscriptions of those good and generous hearted men who were adverse to the Quaker principle of persecution, and who thought me still a man worthy to be supported. Upon this knowledge, the Quaker, like the hungry tiger prowling after his prey, or like--(Oh there is no beast in nature besides half so savage as to deserve to be called like a Quaker.') sends his insolent agent with an air of authority and right of seizure over my poor basket, to demand to see the list of subscriptions, and to be informed how they were disposed of, in order that if any thing more than a suppiy from hand to mouth had been raised for me, he might pounce on it. He sees that my kind friends have not kept me here on starving ratios--Mat is grievous to him--nay more, he finds tbat they have even sent me the luxury of a pocket microscope--that is intolerable; and the insulting tyrant takes upon himself to ask--" what business such a man as Mr. Taylor had with such an inordinate luxury as a microscope. Alas, that one who rolls in his carriage in liberty and affluence, should envy me the amusement of a microscope in a prison! I put it to any man of feeling in the world--how would he feel if thus dealt with? I appeal to every just man's sense of justice, whether my words have or could have been more grievous than my wrongs. Freely, publicly, and cheerfully, even after all the payment that these men have had out of me in the way of revenge and spitefulness, would I pledge myself to live on half meals and pinch myself to the bone till I had paid them " the uttermost farthing," would they but once possess my reason of the conviction that 1 was really their...