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No description of it, at once graphic and authentic, has ever been given.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “No description of it, at once graphic and authentic, has ever been given.”
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Bagehot claims that no accurate and vivid description of the Cabinet has ever been provided.
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