Burke Manuscript

Burke Manuscript: Page 285

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after a haggling match, hawking his sample round, had brokenheartedly to return and take the grinding price offered. People who grow grain now often growl. Many an old one can remember that years ago lots of grain was sold even as low as 1/6, a bushel, and that every advantage was taken of the slightest discolouration or hint at growth. Ah! Those were bitter years for many. It is true some conquered, but how many of the old original holders of the purchasing clauses ever managed to buy the freehold? But some big fortunes were made out of the misery of these people and some families laid the foundations of their greatness of today by ways that would not suit all persons. There were some disreputable bankruptcy swindles, and in one big affair it used to be whispered that the confidential clerk (such an article having lately been much talked of) was shipped to distant lands, for indeed it was thought, in fact people asserted they were sure, that he could make revelations that would not have added to the respectability, age, or even to the reputation for piety of some people.

C.W. Turner, sixties John Lewis sixties John T. Matson sixties