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Excerpt from History of the Taxes on Knowledge, Vol. 2: Their Origin and Repeal
Association in the face of such acts of folly? A committee meeting was promptly called, and the advertisement withdrawn. The generous indulgence of my four colleagues, whom I had committed by my inconsiderate and impulsive proceedings, 1 can never forget. Mr. Moore fully' entered into our reasons for inserting his name without his signature. Mr. Milner-gibson took the disavowal to be inserted in the Times, and Mr. Cobden, as he departed with him, said of me with a smile, He does not seem half so much ashamed of himself as he ought to be. The incident, which lasted just thirty-six hours, closed with the indignant withdrawal of his name from our committee by one old and valued friend, Matthew Davenport Hill.
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