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The American Revolution (Volume 2); PT. I, 1766-1776 by George Otto Trevelyan (Paperback / softback, 2012)

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: partisans, but, as was afterwards shown on many occasions, to a hostile House of Commons. At the declaration of the poll, so far from saying ditto to Mr. Burke, Mr. Cruger spoke first; and a good third of Mr. Burke's speech consisted in a statement of the points on which he differed from Mr. Cruger. In many other constituencies besides Bristol there was plenty of independence, and little flagrant corruption. It was to an unusual degree a country gentleman's election. The King, so far back as August, had prophesied that a dissolution would fill the House with men of landed property, as the Nabobs, Planters, and other volunteers were t ready for the battle. There was less money forthcoming than on the last occasion; and, which was more to the purpose, people needed to be very cautious how they spent what they were prepared to part with. Mr. Grenville's Act (as Horace Walpole said) w hung out all its terrors. The rich Londoners had been taken by surprise, and did t venture at that eleventh hour to throw about their guineas and banktes. The squires who lived close at hand, and who loved to entertain even where there was thing to be got by it, had established a claim on the suffrages of rural boroughs by a course of hospitality which laws, except those of health, could punish. It was t a crime for a host, who himself took his share, to give his friend a couple of bottles of wine and half a bowl of punch, and provide him with a bed in which to sleep them off. And again the large proprietors, who could afford to set aside a square mile of grass from the plough and the dairy farm, had at their disposal abundant material for sustaining their influence and popularity. A great family, which represented .a great town, made little of keeping up a herd of five or six hundred d...

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General Books
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0217062091
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9780217062091
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English
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27/10/2016
Date of Publication
01/01/2012
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Black & White Illustrations
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United States

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