The Building of the British Empire; the Story of England's Growth From Elizabeth to Victoria 2
The Building of the British Empire; the Story of England's Growth From Elizabeth to Victoria 2
Alfred Thomas Story
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They abused their trust, and though found out and exposed, they were not ashamed. It had been proved to demonstration that this two-sided oligarchy had utterly failed in its legitimate purposes, that its rule was carried out more for the benefit of the adminis- trators than the community, that the public money was squandered in the maintenance of useless sine- cures and undeserved pensions, and that peers and commoners, their relatives, their dependents and connections, alike abetted, as they p...articipated in, the general corruption. Official patronage was abused, and Cabinet Ministers were not above creating offices for their sons, and then abolishing them and retaining the compensation pensions. Nor did the evil attach only to the department of the public service; the gangrene was everywhere. Inequalities and abuses were not more rife in public offices than in the Church, in the courts of law, and in the great corporations of the kingdom. The en- tire system, the whole of the body politic, had A PEACEFUL REVOLUTION.
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