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By Charles Dickens 28 Aug, 2019
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Excerpt.......Mr. Hood.  Sir,—The Constitution is going at last!  You needn’t laugh, Mr. Hood.  I am aware that it has been going, two or three times before; perhaps four times; but it is on the move now, sir, and no mistake. I beg to sa ... Read more
Excerpt.......Mr. Hood.  Sir,—The Constitution is going at last!  You needn’t laugh, Mr. Hood.  I am aware that it has been going, two or three times before; perhaps four times; but it is on the move now, sir, and no mistake. I beg to say, that I use those last expressions advisedly, sir, and not in the sense in which they are now used by Jackanapeses.  There were no Jackanapeses when I was a boy, Mr. Hood.  England was Old England when I was young.  I little thought it would ever come to be Young England when I was old.  But everything is going backward. Ah! governments were governments, and judges were judges, in my day, Mr. Hood.  There was no nonsense then.  Any of your seditious complainings and we were ready with the military on the shortest notice.  We should have charged Covent Garden Theatre, sir, on a Wednesday night: at the point of the bayonet.  Then, the judges were full of dignity and firmness and knew how to administer the law. Less
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Charles John Huffam Dickens; (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the gr...
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