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Samuel Warren
Samuel Warren (1807–1877) was an English barrister, novelist, and legal writer, known for his contributions to both fiction and law. He is best remembered for his novel "Ten Thousand a-Year" (1839), a satirical work about legal and political life, which became highly popular in Victorian England. Warren also authored "Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician" (1832–1837), a collection of stories based on his medical knowledge before he shifted to law. In addition to his literary work, he became Queen's Counsel and wrote several legal texts, including "A Popular and Practical Introduction to Law Studies" (1835).
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THE MARCH ASSIZE. Something more than half a century ago, a person, in going along Holborn, might have seen, near the corner of one of the thoroughfares which diverge towards Russell Square, the respectable-looking shop of a glover and haberdasher named James Harvey, a man generally esteemed by his neighbors, and who was usually considered well to do in the world. Like many London tradesmen, Harvey was...
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CHAPTER I. About ten o'clock one Sunday morning, in the month of July 18—, the dazzling sunbeams, which had for several hours irradiated a little dismal back attic in one of the closest courts adjoining Oxford Street, in London, and stimulated with their intensity the closed eyelids of a young man—one Tittlebat Titmouse—lying in bed, at length awoke him. He rubbed his eyes for some time, to...
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