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not wish

to be

represented

except by

opulent

men. An

Englishman

who has

lost his

fortune,

is said to

have died

of a

broken

heart. The

last term

of insult

is, "a

beggar."

Nelson

said, "the

want of

fortune is

a crime

which I

can never

get over."

Sydney

Smith

said,

"poverty

is

infamous

in

England."

And one of

their

recent

writers

speaks, in

reference

to a

private

and

scholastic

life, of

"the grave

moral

deterioration

which