Excerpt from The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild, the Great, And, Articles in the Champion Between wild and the count, IN which public virtue IS just hinted at, with, &c. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great But befides the two Obvious advantages of furvey in g, as it were in a pieture, the true beauty of virtue, and deformity of_ vice, we may moreover learn from Plutarch, Nepos, Suetonius, and other biographers, this ufeful lern, not too bafiily, nor in the grofs to bellow either our praife or cenfure; huco we {hall Often find fuch a mixture of good and evil in the fame charaeter, that it may require a very accurate judg ment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which lide the balance turns: for tho' we fometimes meet with an Arifiridcs or a Brutus, a Lyfander or a Nero, yet far the greater number are Of the mixt kind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild, and a Journey From This World to the Next, Etc Chapter III. The birth, parentage, and education of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great: With the Author's Preface, and an Introduction But in his books and out of them, in his cups, and in the sober senses which brought him the anguish and remorse of a strong mind conscious of its own weaknesses and shortcomings, one seeks in vain for any Henry Fielding but that which bears the mint-mark of an honest man. Not only honest, too, but generous as just, kindly, con siderate, unselfish, full of the sweetness of a noble nature, which the abundant poison of an ignoble age and society could not spoil. He will give any man his purse, says Thackeray he can't help kindness and profusion. He may have low tastes, but not a mean mind. He ad mires with all his heart good and virtuous men, stoops to no attery, bears no rancor, disdains all disloyal arts, does his public duty uprightly, is fondly loved by his family, and dies at his work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Excerpt from The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great: A Sketch of the Life of Henry Fielding General Edmund Fielding, after having fleshed his maiden sword in Flanders, and reddened his first Spurs with battle blood upon the continent, married, at the age of thirty, Sarah Gould, the daughter of an honest and thrifty knight, Sir Henry Gould, of Sharpham Park, near Glastonbury, in Somerset. Sir Henry was one of the judges of the King's Bench, and had a handsome fortune and kept up a good estate. When the young soldier married into his family he also came to live in it in the intervals of his campaigns, and it was in the house of his grandfather that, on April 22, 1707, the novelist, Henry Fielding, saluted with his first baby cry the great world in which he was to play his heroic part. In 1710 Sir Henry Gould died, and his household was broken up. By his will, made in March, 1706, Sir Henry left his daughter which was to be invested in the purchase either of a Church or College lease, or of lands of Inheritance, for her sole use, her husband having nothing to do With it, which would seem to indicate that the wise old knight had a distrust of his military, and possibly impecunious, son-in-law. This money was to come to her children at the death of Mrs. Fielding, and was no unimportant part of the family estate while the good lady was yet alive. Three thousand pounds in those comparatively primitive days meant quite as much as the quadrupled sum means in our waste ful and extravagant time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great by Henry Fielding But befides the two Obvious advantages of furvey in g, as it were in a pieture, the true beauty of virtue, and deformity of_ vice, we may moreover learn from Plutarch, Nepos, Suetonius, and other biographers, this ufeful lern, not too bafiily, nor in the grofs to bellow either our praife or cenfure; huco we {hall Often find fuch a mixture of good and evil in the fame charaeter, that it may require a very accurate judg ment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which lide the balance turns: for tho' we fometimes meet with an Arifiridcs or a Brutus, a Lyfander or a Nero, yet far the greater number are Of the mixt kind. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
'he carried Good-nature to that wonderful and uncommon Height, that he never did a single Injury to Man or Woman, by which he himself did not expect to reap some Advantage' The real-life Jonathan Wild, gangland godfather and self-styled 'Thieftaker General', controlled much of the London underworld until he was executed for his crimes in 1725. Even during his lifetime his achievements attracted attention; after his death balladeers sang of his exploits, and satirists made connectionsbetween his success and the triumph of corruption in high places. Henry Fielding built on these narratives to produce one of the greatest sustained satires in the English language. Published in 1743, at a time when the modern novel had yet to establish itself as a fixed literary form, Jonathan Wild is at the same time a brilliant black comedy, an incisive political satire, and a profoundly serious exploration of human 'greatness' and 'goodness'.
