8 Jan y 1810

Parl y. Reform

Ch.17.

'.2. Disreputableness

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Were it there any room for doubt, by one short question the matter might be brought to a short office. On the occasion in question within the walls in question the sale of seats had been avowed and justified. On any occasion within those same walls is there so much as a single individual by whom the sale of votes the sale of so much as a single vote (understand always for the dry and sordid matter viz. that which in former days /till the days of paper/ /before the age of paper/ used to be known by the denomination of hard money) would be avowed and justified? It is almost superfluous to observe, how assured by and universally the answer would be in the negative is almost superfluous to observe.

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