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So much for real conversation in a Turkish
Treasury:– now for an imaginary dialogue.
a Cottage between John and Mary in a Cottage.
John — Come, Mary — the Children be hungry
& Come bustle about in and get 'em
their dinners, Mary.
Mary, Dinner? & Aye, that's, what I
want & But, look ye did, ye see, how many
children have us two got? — For
my part, I don't know, not I & Dost
thee know?
Were a dialogue of this stamp to be produced
upon the Theatre, and the scene laid in
a Cottage it would be reprobated spurned at as unnatural.
In the humblest – in the worst informed line of
life – ignorance (it would be said) doth does not sink
thus low. Among and in private life Among individuals such
language would be too silly for the merest simpleton.
But government! has never held – has never been able to enabled itself to hold – any other.
In the year 177 and 178 Acts of
Parliament were passed; under the notion of furnishing
the legislator with the a stock of information
requisite, to form a basis for a new complete
plan of provision for the Poor, – Every thing accordingly
was was
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