The Whistler at the Plough: Containing Travels, Statistics, and Descriptions of Scenery and Agricultural Customs in Most Parts of England: with Letters from Ireland: Also "Free Trade and the League;" a Biography History, Volume 2J. Ainsworth; London, W. French, 1853 - Free trade |
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... merchant , at all events , continued from this time to apply himself unremittingly to the study of his business , which his natural quickness of compre- hension and tact very soon enabled him to master . And after a probation of a year ...
... merchant , at all events , continued from this time to apply himself unremittingly to the study of his business , which his natural quickness of compre- hension and tact very soon enabled him to master . And after a probation of a year ...
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... merchant entertaining enlarged views on these subjects , and conscious of the possession of an amount of knowledge and information which might be usefully brought to bear upon their discussion , the desire to take part in these debates ...
... merchant entertaining enlarged views on these subjects , and conscious of the possession of an amount of knowledge and information which might be usefully brought to bear upon their discussion , the desire to take part in these debates ...
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... merchant and man of busi- ness able to bear the most unequivocal and unsuspected testi- mony to the beneficial character of his commercial policy . Mr Thomson , moreover , carried his views of the expediency of abrogating the ...
... merchant and man of busi- ness able to bear the most unequivocal and unsuspected testi- mony to the beneficial character of his commercial policy . Mr Thomson , moreover , carried his views of the expediency of abrogating the ...
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... merchants that have saved the mother country from being consumed , ruined , by her colonies . She has been debarred from a free and profitable intercourse with other countries that she might foster the interests of those unprofitable ...
... merchants that have saved the mother country from being consumed , ruined , by her colonies . She has been debarred from a free and profitable intercourse with other countries that she might foster the interests of those unprofitable ...
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... may either go to work in down- right earnest with commercial reform , sugar duties , timber duties , corn duties , and thus get a large revenue by throwing over ( if he can ) landlords , merchants , FREE TRADE AND THE LEAGUE . 55.
... may either go to work in down- right earnest with commercial reform , sugar duties , timber duties , corn duties , and thus get a large revenue by throwing over ( if he can ) landlords , merchants , FREE TRADE AND THE LEAGUE . 55.
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