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  • For power, for no other consideration, those manufacturing rascals have raised Radicalism from its primaeval mire -- from its petty backslum bookseller's shop and public-house back-parlour effluvia of oratory -- to issue dictates in

    Beauchamp's Career — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • For power, for no other consideration, those manufacturing rascals have raised Radicalism from its primaeval mire -- from its petty backslum bookseller's shop and public-house back-parlour effluvia of oratory -- to issue dictates in England, and we,

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • For power, for no other consideration, those manufacturing rascals have raised Radicalism from its primaeval mire -- from its petty backslum bookseller's shop and public-house back - parlour effluvia of oratory -- to issue dictates in England, and we,

    Beauchamp's Career — Volume 3 George Meredith 1868

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