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The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 2

Note 37 — PART SECOND.

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The English landlord has been held up to obloquy, as endeavouring to keep up the price of corn, for his own sordid interest; but rent never leads, it only follows, and the utmost a landlord can get for his capital is three per cent., whereas the lord of whirling wheels gains thirty per cent.

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