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... whole may be reassured , though pessimism is only too popular ; while as for the changes which have been improving our material and social condition , it is as difficult to appre- ciate as it is impossible to deny them . Those everyday ...
... whole may be reassured , though pessimism is only too popular ; while as for the changes which have been improving our material and social condition , it is as difficult to appre- ciate as it is impossible to deny them . Those everyday ...
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... whole , that the people were fairly satisfied . The dullest could see that , in spite of excessive drains for war ex- penditure , the country had been rapidly advanc- ing in prosperity ; while the wars which increased taxation and ran ...
... whole , that the people were fairly satisfied . The dullest could see that , in spite of excessive drains for war ex- penditure , the country had been rapidly advanc- ing in prosperity ; while the wars which increased taxation and ran ...
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... whole , in the best of practicable worlds . The Crown , the Court , the landed aristocracy , and the com- mercial capitalists had good reason to be satis- fied . They returned the representatives who governed the country , and could ...
... whole , in the best of practicable worlds . The Crown , the Court , the landed aristocracy , and the com- mercial capitalists had good reason to be satis- fied . They returned the representatives who governed the country , and could ...
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... whole Bill , and nothing but the Bill , received the reluctant ap- proval of the King and the Upper Chamber . As for the " nothing but the Bill , " that was absurd ; it should have been plain that there could be no such thing as ...
... whole Bill , and nothing but the Bill , received the reluctant ap- proval of the King and the Upper Chamber . As for the " nothing but the Bill , " that was absurd ; it should have been plain that there could be no such thing as ...
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... whole it is a fair and open fight between Dick Avenel's interest in the rising town and the Lansmere influence in the town and the county . While in Lansmere , still half aristo- cratic 32 Free and Independent Electors .
... whole it is a fair and open fight between Dick Avenel's interest in the rising town and the Lansmere influence in the town and the county . While in Lansmere , still half aristo- cratic 32 Free and Independent Electors .
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