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      The Tomahawk: A Saturday Journal Of Sati...

      THE TOMAHAWK : A SATURDAY JOURNAL OF SATIRE . " INVITAT CULPAM QUI PECCATUM PR / ETERIT . "

      No. 65.] London, August I, 1868. [Price ...

      NO . 65 . ] LONDON , AUGUST I , 1868 . [ Price Twopence .

      The Latest Missionary Effort.

      THE LATEST MISSIONARY EFFORT .

      Of The Conversion English To Peop A Grea...

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      for Commons the bones is a ; and sort that of human the hig bear h and -pit mi , with ghty the House beasts of Lord fighting s is hold but a of Sch their ool faith for Abuse : Church . But and there State st were ill remained both tottering one strong from - the open assaults of their foes and the secret underminings of their Morality professed , still re friends mained , but intact that ; our pearl mothers beyond , our price wives , British , our daughters , and our sisters were still miracles of purity ; Society was innoce gay nt , ou perhaps r dramas , but were always still purg proper ed of o all ur impropriety amusements by were the fatherly supervision of a Christian and a Lord Chamberlain .

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    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), Aug. 1, 1868, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_01081868/page/1/