A Famous Forgery (Classic Reprint): Being the Story of the Unfortunate Doctor: Being the Story of the Unfortunate Doctor (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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The story of this unhappy clergyman has not been told before; yet its dim, indistinct outline is, in a sort Of general way, familiar to many persons. This acquaintance seems to resolve itself into three main features - that of the centre figure being a clergy man, that his Offence was a forgery, and that, through the terribly severe laws of his country, he suffered death for the crime. The Execution Of Doctor Dodd is, perhaps, the idea most distinctly present to all, when they think of his name. The flurry of the days between his sentence and death has in it some thing almost lurid and idolators Of Boswell's book and there are such - will own to there being a sort of horrid fascination in the passages he devotes to this incident.

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