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... talk of gold to be grubbed we have despatched them : not hopefully , indeed , far from it ; but with that craving for momentary relief that makes a man glad to renew his bill without distressing himself at the instant how he is to meet ...
... talk of gold to be grubbed we have despatched them : not hopefully , indeed , far from it ; but with that craving for momentary relief that makes a man glad to renew his bill without distressing himself at the instant how he is to meet ...
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... talk thousands and tens of thousands ; to glance over the balance- sheet , and sign your name after six or seven figures in a row , as though your autograph had some virtue in it ; to listen to that slang of the share markets that has a ...
... talk thousands and tens of thousands ; to glance over the balance- sheet , and sign your name after six or seven figures in a row , as though your autograph had some virtue in it ; to listen to that slang of the share markets that has a ...
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... talk expressions the coarsest and most irreverent . This has gone , entirely gone . The fast man of the novel or the " Blood " of the comedy no longer offends good taste by such excesses . And who made this reformation ? The same ...
... talk expressions the coarsest and most irreverent . This has gone , entirely gone . The fast man of the novel or the " Blood " of the comedy no longer offends good taste by such excesses . And who made this reformation ? The same ...
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... talk one way and vote another . Now , in the old days of bribery and corruption - I do not mean the pre - Sarumite days , but in that more recent period preceding our last enactments against the buying of votes - men usually went down ...
... talk one way and vote another . Now , in the old days of bribery and corruption - I do not mean the pre - Sarumite days , but in that more recent period preceding our last enactments against the buying of votes - men usually went down ...
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... talk of India as people talk of Ireland : the references to national peculiari- ties and the tendencies of race would not be tolerated if applied to the Bengalee . You would have to apologise to your reader in asking him to credit some ...
... talk of India as people talk of Ireland : the references to national peculiari- ties and the tendencies of race would not be tolerated if applied to the Bengalee . You would have to apologise to your reader in asking him to credit some ...
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