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How pure the joy, when first my hands unfold
The small, rare volume, black with tarnished gold!
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Torn from their destined page (unworthy meed
Of knightly counsel and heroic deed).
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Now cheaply bought for thrice their weight in gold.
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There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
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John Ferriar
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Born:
1761
Died:
February 4, 1815
(aged 54)
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John Ferriar was a Scottish physician and a poet, most noted for his leadership of the Manchester Infirmary, and his studies of the causes of diseases such as typhoid. M.D.
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