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These honourable and estimable people farm out iniquity as you would do your demesne, selling the cheatable features of mankind, like the new corn law, on the principle of “a general average.”

From Nuts and Nutcrackers by Lever, Charles James

These honourable and estimable people farm out iniquity as you would do your demesne, selling the cheatable features of mankind, like the new corn law, on the principle of "a general average."

From Nuts and Nutcrackers by Lever, Charles James