human
government (these were Mr. Yorke's epithets). Madmen like Pitt, demons like Castlereagh, mischievous idiots like Perceval, were the tyrants, the curses of the country, the destroyers of her trade. It was their infatuated perseverance in an unjustifiable, a hopeless, a ruinous war, which had brought the nation to its present pass. It was their monstrously oppressive taxation, it was the infamous
gpt
Orders in Council
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But where was the use of talking? he demanded.
gpt
What chance was there of reason being heard in a land that was king-ridden, priest-ridden, peer-ridden; where a lunatic was the nominal monarch, an unprincipled debauchee the real ruler; where such an insult to common sense as hereditary legislators was tolerated; where such a humbug as a bench of bishops, such an arrogant abuse as a pampered, persecuting established church was endured and venerated; where a standing army was maintained, and a host of lazy parsons and their pauper families were kept on the fat of the land?
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he said,
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he affirmed,
human
he added,
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(pointing to a great Bible in the bookcase),
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he said,
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Sir, said Mr. Helstone, collecting all his dignity--
human
Ay, ay. You'll recollect, Mr. Helstone, that Ignorance was carried away from the very gates of heaven, borne through the air, and thrust in at a door in the side of the hill which led down to hell.
gpt
Nor have I forgotten, Mr. Yorke, that Vain-Confidence, not seeing the way before him, fell into a deep pit, which was on purpose there made by the prince of the grounds, to catch vainglorious fools withal, and was dashed to pieces with his fall.
human
Now, interposed Mr. Moore, who had hitherto sat a silent but amused spectator of this worldly combat, and whose indifference to the party politics of the day, as well as to the gossip of the neighbourhood, made him an impartial, if apathetic, judge of the merits of such an encounter,
gpt
I am going, however, Mr. Moore, said the rector sternly.
human
Come with me or not, as you please.
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Nay, he shall not have the choice; he _shall_ go with you, responded Yorke.
human
It's midnight, and past; and I'll have nob'dy staying up i' my house any longer. Ye mun all go.
gpt
Deb, said he to the servant who answered it,