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    Mr. Joseph Hanson, The Haberdasher
    Mr. Joseph Hanson, The Haberdasher
    Mr. Joseph Hanson, The Haberdasher
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    Mr. Joseph Hanson, The Haberdasher

    By Mary Russell Mitford

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Mr. Joseph Hanson, The Haberdasher - Mary Russell Mitford

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      Title: Mr. Joseph Hanson, The Haberdasher

      Author: Mary Russell Mitford

      Release Date: October 2, 2007 [EBook #22841]

      Last Updated: January 9, 2013

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MR. JOSEPH HANSON, THE HABERDASHER ***

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      MR. JOSEPH HANSON,

      THE HABERDASHER

      By Mary Russell Mitford

      These are good days for great heroes; so far at least as regards the general spread and universal diffusion of celebrity. In the matter of fame, indeed, that grand bill upon posterity which is to be found written in the page of history, and the changes of empires, Alexander may, for aught I know, be nearly on a par with the Duke of Wellington; but in point of local and temporary tributes to reputation, the great ancient, king though he were, must have been far behind the great modern. Even that comparatively recent warrior, the Duke of Marlborough, made but a slight approach to the popular honours paid to the conqueror of Napoleon. A few alehouse signs and the ballad of Marlbrook s'en va't en guerre, (for we are not talking now of the titles, and pensions, and palaces, granted to him by the Sovereign and the Parliament,) seem to have been the chief if not the only popular demonstrations vouchsafed by friends and enemies to the hero of Blenheim.

      The name of Wellington, on the other hand, is necessarily in every man's mouth at every hour of every day. He is the universal godfather of every novelty, whether in art, in literature, or in science. Streets, bridges, places, crescents, terraces, and railways, on the land; steam-boats on the water; balloons in the air, are all distinguished by that honoured appellation. We live in Wellington squares, we travel in Wellington coaches, we dine in Wellington hotels, we are educated in Wellington establishments, and are clothed from top to toe (that is to say the male half of the nation) in Wellington boots, Wellington cloaks, Wellington hats, each of which shall have been severally

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