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I admire much that is excellent in the character of the aristocracy of this country, but I do not admire their pernicious extravagance ; their London profligacy ; their riotous revels and banquets ; nor that huge burthen of prodigality, which is supported out of the distress of their tenants—out of the toil and sweat, and the almost starvation of their servants. To give real, actual and immediate relief, the rents must be lowered, and the landlords can only do this by limiting and retrenching their expenditure. They at present act on a baneful and pernicious principle, that of the utmost possible extortion ; and then with the gold they swarm to London ; luxuriate in every possible extravagance ; devote themselves purely and solely to political aggrandizement ; and what is worse shudder with horror from every recital of the miseries of their tenants. Moreover, they abandon their real friends,—whilst London, which robs and plunders them, in its ingratitude abandons them, and, with the county, sends twenty of the most pernicious radicals to the House of Commons, to destroy that very class of men, who squander all their wealth among them.

From: Rural Sketches and Poems, Chiefly Relating to Cleveland, by John Walker Ord, 1845.

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I admire much that is excellent in the character of the aristocracy of this country, but I do not admire their pernicious extravagance ; their London profligacy ; their riotous revels and banquets ; nor that huge burthen of prodigality, which is supported out of the distress of their tenants—out of the toil and sweat, and the almost starvation of their servants. To give real, actual and immediate relief, the rents must be lowered, and the landlords can only do this by limiting and retrenching their expenditure. They at present act on a baneful and pernicious principle, that of the utmost possible extortion ; and then with the gold they swarm to London ; luxuriate in every possible extravagance ; devote themselves purely and solely to political aggrandizement ; and what is worse shudder with horror from every recital of the miseries of their tenants. Moreover, they abandon their real friends,—whilst London, which robs and plunders them, in its ingratitude abandons them, and, with the county, sends twenty of the most pernicious radicals to the House of Commons, to destroy that very class of men, who squander all their wealth among them.

From: Rural Sketches and Poems, Chiefly Relating to Cleveland, by John Walker Ord, 1845.

Any query which contains the words 'pernicious' and 'baneful' is bound to produce interesting results..