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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
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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 England, and we,
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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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 England, and we,
Beauchamp's Career — Volume 3 George Meredith 1868
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