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Excerpt: ...If we were to have another county meeting, he would not, I think, threaten to put the sash down upon anybodys head Oh Peel, Peel, Peel Thy Pg 291 Bill, oh, Peel, did sicken them so Let us, oh, thou offspring of the great Spinning Jenny promoter, who subscribed ten thousand pounds towards the late "glorious" war; who was, after that, made a Baronet, and whose biographers (in the Baronetage) tell the world that he had a "presentiment that he should be the founder of a family." Oh, thou, thou great Peel, do thou let us have only two more years of thy Bill Or, oh, great Peel, Minister of the interior, do thou let us have repeal of Corn Bill Either will do, great Peel. We shall then see such modest squires, and parsons looking so queer However, if thou wilt not listen to us, great Peel, we must, perhaps (and only perhaps), wait a little longer. It is sure to come at last, and to come, too, in the most efficient way. The water in the Itchen is, they say, famed for its clearness. As I was crossing the river the other day, at Avington, I told Richard to look at it, and I asked him if he did not think it very clear. I now find that this has been remarked by very ancient writers. I see, in a newspaper just received, an account of dreadful fires in New Brunswick. It is curious that in my Register of the 29th October (dated from Chilworth in Surrey) I should have put a question relative to the White-Clover, the Huckleberries, or the Raspberries, which start up after the burning down of woods in America. These fires have been at two places which I saw when there were hardly any people in the whole country; and if there never had been any people there to this day it would have been a good thing for England. Those colonies are a dead expense, without a possibility of their ever being of any use. There are, I see, a church and a barrack destroyed. And why a barrack? What were there bayonets wanted already to keep the...
| ISBN-13 | 9781150159190 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1150159197 |
| Weight | 1.56 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.08 In |
| List Price | $33.12 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 484 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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