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Rattlin, the Reefer - Page 136
by Edward Howard - 1836
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Rattlin, the reefer [by E. Howard] ed. by the author of 'Peter Simple'.

Edward Howard - 1836 - 1000 pages
...that the tyranny and the folly are innate in the man, but, that the service abhors and represses the one, and despises and often reforms the other. The...libel to say, that more than a quarter of a century ago (of course, now, it is all perfection) it contained some bad men among its multitude of good. Such...
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The Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 12

1835 - 592 pages
...that the tyranny and the folly is innate in the man, but, that the service abhors and represses the one, and despises an*d often reforms the other. The...libel to say, that more than a quarter of a century ago (of course now it is all perfection) it contained some bad men among its multitude of good. Such...
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Rattlin the reefer [by E. Howard] ed. by the author of 'Peter ..., Volume 187

Edward Howard - 1856 - 296 pages
...that the tyranny and the folly are innate in the man, but that the service abhors and represses the one. and despises and often reforms the other. The service never made a good man bad, or a bad man worse : on the contrary, it has always improved the one, and reformed the other. It is, however,...
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Rattlin, the Reefer

Edward Howard, Frederick Marryat - 1873 - 404 pages
...that the tyranny and the folly are innate in the man, but that the service abhors and represses the one, and despises and often reforms the other. The service never made a good man bad, or a bad man worse : on the contrary, it has always improved the one, and reformed the other. It is, however,...
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