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They can see, without pain or grudging, an archbishop precede a duke. They can see a bishop of Durham, or a bishop of Winchester, in possession of ten thousand pounds a year; and cannot conceive why it is in worse hands than estates to the like amount...

The Historical Magazine, Or, Classical Library of Public Events: Consisting ... - Side 452
1790
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The Nineteenth Century, Bind 9

1881 - 1082 sider

...corporations, as such, are not, says the conservative Burke, severely but truly, ' in worse hands than estates to the like amount in the hands of this earl or that squire, although it may be true that so many dogs and horses are not kept by the religious.' But it...

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