William Wilberforce (the sociable voice of abolition) [ Politics ]
… regulations which I have made‘ ( The Life , vol. III, 435). In a self-castigating and ironical move – from a former clubman and faro player at White’s and Brooks’s (Tomkins 29) – he urged Pitt to implement a tax on public diversions. But …
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