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Excerpt from Illustrations of Political Economy, Vol. 1 of 9: Life in the Wilds; The Hill and the Valley; Brooke and Brooke Farm
If a stranger had entered the castle of a nohl man, eight hundred years ago, and, grieved what he saw, had endeavoured to put matters a better footing, how ought he to set about and in what temper should.he be listened tc If he had the opportunity of addressing the enti household at once, he would say, I have bee in your splendid halls, and I saw vast sur squandered in gaming, while hungry credits were looking on from without with rage in thq countenances. I have been in your banquetii room, and I saw riot and drunkenness to-d.
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