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The Book of Snobs

CHAPTER XIII--ON CLERICAL SNOBS
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The stake for heretics is gone; the pillory is taken down; Bishops are even found lifting up their voices against the remains of persecution, and ready to do away with the last Catholic Disabilities.

Sir Robert Peel, though he wished it ever so much, has no power over Mr.Benjamin Disraeli's grinders, or any means of violently handling that gentleman's jaw.

Jews are not called upon to wear badges: on the contrary, they may live in Piccadilly, or the Minories, according to fancy; they may dress like Christians, and do sometimes in a most elegant and fashionable manner.
Why is the poor College servitor to wear that name and that badge still?
Because Universities are the last places into which Reform penetrates.
But now that she can go to College and back for five shillings, let her travel down thither..


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