William Roscoe

William Roscoe (8 March 175330 June 1831) was an English banker, lawyer, and briefly a Member of Parliament. He is best known as one of England's first abolitionists, and as the author of the poem for children ''The Butterfly's Ball, and the Grasshopper's Feast''. In his day he was also respected as a historian and art collector, as well as a botanist and miscellaneous writer. Provided by Wikipedia
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    The life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent
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    The wrongs of Africa a poem. Part the first. ; [Three lines in Latin from Catullus].
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    The life of Lorenzo de' Medici : called the Magnificent
    by Roscoe, William, 1753-1831
    Published 1851
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    Observations on penal jurisprudence, and the reformation of criminals : Part III, containing further remarks on the opinions of the Edinburgh reviewers, on the Society for Prison Discipline, on the General Penitentiary at Milbank, and on the state prisons in America : being an attempt to demonstrate the necessity of adopting an improved system of criminal jurisprudence : with an appendix, containing the latest reports of the state prisons at New-York, &c.
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    The life and pontificate of Leo the Tenth : in four volumes
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    Considerations on the causes, objects and consequences of the present war and on the expediency or the danger of peace with France
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    The life of Lorenzo de' Medici : called the Magnificent
    by Roscoe, William, 1753-1831
    Published 1842
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    A letter to Henry Brougham, Esq. M.P : on the subject of reform in the representation of the people in Parliament
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    A brief statement of the causes which have led to the abandonment of the celebrated system of penitentiary discipline, in some of the United States of America : in a letter to the Hon. Stephen Allen, of New-York
    by Roscoe, William, 1753-1831
    Published 1827
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    The Butterfly's birth-day
    by Roscoe, William, 1753-1831
    Published 1816
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    The butterfly's birth-day
    by Roscoe, William, 1753-1831
    Published 1810
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    The life and pontificate of Leo the Tenth
    by Roscoe, William, 1753-1831
    Published 1853
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    Observations on penal jurisprudence and the reformation of criminals : with an appendix, containing the latest reports of the state-prisons or penitentiaries of Philadelphia, New-York, and Massachusetts, and other documents
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    The life and pontificate of Leo the Tenth ...
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    The life and pontificate of Leo the Tenth
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    Observations on penitentiary discipline : addressed to William Roscoe, Esq., of Liverpool, England.
    by Allen, Stephen, 1767-1852
    Published 1827
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    Letter on the penitentiary system of Pennsylvania : addressed to William Roscoe, Esquire, of Toxteth Park, near Liverpool
    by Vaux, Roberts, 1786-1836
    Published 1827
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    Strictures on Mr. Burke's Two letters, addressed to a member of the present Parliament: on the proposals for peace with the regicide Directory of France. Part the first
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    The nurse a poem.
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    An examination of the remarks on the report of the commissioners, appointed by the Legislature of New York, on the 12th of April, 1824, to visit the state prisons at New York and Auburn, and the act proposed for regulating the same.
    by Allen, Stephen, 1767-1852
    Published 1826
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