Library of Formatting Examples:Italics/21B

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been ruined by the South Sea Bubble! I cannot help feeling
for these people, for whom my birth, education, taste, and habits
give me so strong a partiality. Who can help feeling for their
wives and children, hurled down headlong from affluence to
misery in the space of a few months! Become all of a sudden
the mockery of those whom they compelled, perhaps, to cringe
before them! If the Labourers exult, one cannot say that it is
unnatural. If <i>Reason</i> have her fair sway, I am exempted from
all pain upon this occasion. I have done my best to prevent
these calamities. Those farmers who have attended to me are
safe while the storm rages. My endeavours to stop the evil in
time cost me the earnings of twenty long years! I did not
sink, no, nor <i>bend</i>, beneath the heavy and reiterated blows of the
accursed system, which I have dealt back blow for blow; and,
blessed be God, I now see it <i>reel</i>! It is staggering about like a

Ownership of punctuation

Many of the sentences on this page end with an exclamation mark, so the one after "reel" in the last line probably belongs to the sentence, too. Placing the "bang" outside is more likely to conform to Guidelines, and if you think it may be an exception but are not sure, ASK.