HE LEFT IT PAPER
Sir Henry Lucy says in tho London """Times" _ that Mr Lloyd Georges adioirers ilisccni rcson}b!<inco to li s great predecessor I'itt. There is certainly one important point of delinitc identity. In ISOu Pitt withdrew cold from currency, substituting paper. I'liis £<et the wits awriting. The journals of the day teom with epigrams. Here is an anonymous "Of Augustus and Borne tho poets still marvel, Tlmt he found it of brick and left it of marbjo. • So;of Pitt and of England they say without vapour, That he found it o( gold and he left it of paper."
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 81, 31 December 1919, Page 8
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100HE LEFT IT PAPER Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 81, 31 December 1919, Page 8
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