Emmanuel Burden, merchant, of Thames St., in the city of London, exporter of hardware : a record of his lineage, speculations, last days and death . ?IMF. KF-V. CAlWdUl IIV, ( a block \ekv iiY •?niic sr. HVS HOSTEI, magazine; a HEVIEW OK SOCIAL IKOGKESS) MR BURDEN 183 Mr Barnett was the first to sacrifice himselfin the cause for which so many in the end laiddown their all. He left the Edgeware Road,and took a considerable mansion overlookingthe Park, convenient to the Twopenny Tube,possessing a southern aspect, and so near tothe Marble Arch as to boa


Emmanuel Burden, merchant, of Thames St., in the city of London, exporter of hardware : a record of his lineage, speculations, last days and death . ?IMF. KF-V. CAlWdUl IIV, ( a block \ekv iiY •?niic sr. HVS HOSTEI, magazine; a HEVIEW OK SOCIAL IKOGKESS) MR BURDEN 183 Mr Barnett was the first to sacrifice himselfin the cause for which so many in the end laiddown their all. He left the Edgeware Road,and took a considerable mansion overlookingthe Park, convenient to the Twopenny Tube,possessing a southern aspect, and so near tothe Marble Arch as to boast nobility of thought it his duty (and the future hasproved him wise) to hire a carriage with twohorses, men in livery, and a box at the Opera:nor did he hesitate to ensure to the dailypapers, even to those with whose editors hewas intimate, a fixed contract of advertisement,in return for which, as the courtesy of jour-nalism demands, certain of his doings werepublished, and commentary upon othersomitted. If it be true, as Canon Cone has so beauti-fully put it in his Christmas sermon on King-dom, that we can serve England bette


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