ex-cabinets

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The brilliant roués, the steady gamesters, the borough venders, and the lordly ex-members of ex-cabinets, were the only population of whose living and breathing he suffered himself to have any cognizance. In reverse of Gray's learned mouse, eating its way through the folios of an ancient library and to whom "A river or a sea was but a dish of tea, And a kingdom bread and butter,"

Various - Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844