The Play-bills, 1830 [ Practices ]
… merry, on every Tatler which these poor people sell, they will get a half-penny. When we consider the stress which great statesmen lay upon pence and pots of beer, in their financial measures, we hope this will not have “ a mean sound,” … affect to despise nothing that represents the food and raiment of mothers and children; though we often wonder how great statesmen can lay so much stress upon the pence they dole out, and so little upon the thousands they receive. —But we …
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