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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... protecting duties . He divided , on the 16th of March 1827 , in the small minority of sixteen in favour of Mr Hume's motion on the corn law , which embodied in part the principle of free trade in that staple commodity under a moderate ...
... protecting duties . He divided , on the 16th of March 1827 , in the small minority of sixteen in favour of Mr Hume's motion on the corn law , which embodied in part the principle of free trade in that staple commodity under a moderate ...
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... protection . Attempt to assist its course by protective enactments , by fostering care- you arrest its progress , you destroy its vigour . Unbind the shackles in which your unwise tenderness has confined it- permit it to take ...
... protection . Attempt to assist its course by protective enactments , by fostering care- you arrest its progress , you destroy its vigour . Unbind the shackles in which your unwise tenderness has confined it- permit it to take ...
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... protection - give us the fair field we ask , and we demand no more . The talent , the genius , the enterprise , the capital , the industry of this great people will do the rest ; and England will not only retain , but she will take a ...
... protection - give us the fair field we ask , and we demand no more . The talent , the genius , the enterprise , the capital , the industry of this great people will do the rest ; and England will not only retain , but she will take a ...
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... protected from every other competing article , and Mr Thomson had , very early in the session , to resist repeated attacks from this quarter , which were countenanced far more than could well be justified by some of the members of the ...
... protected from every other competing article , and Mr Thomson had , very early in the session , to resist repeated attacks from this quarter , which were countenanced far more than could well be justified by some of the members of the ...
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... protection , tends to the augmentation of our industry and the increase of our wealth , we have a right to argue that we may proceed in the same course . And what is that which has so falsely been called protection ! Let any man scan it ...
... protection , tends to the augmentation of our industry and the increase of our wealth , we have a right to argue that we may proceed in the same course . And what is that which has so falsely been called protection ! Let any man scan it ...
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amount Anti-Corn-Law attention bill Bowring British carried cause chairman chamber Cheers classes Cobden commercial committee Company's Corn Laws cotton directors East India Company Ebenezer Elliott effect election England English established exports fact farmer favour feeling fixed duty Free Trade French gentleman hear House of Commons Hume Huskisson important increase industry interest John Joseph Hume labour land League legislation legislature Lord Lord John Russell Lord Sydenham Lower Canada Manchester manufactures meeting ment merchants monopoly motion never O'Connell obtained occasion opinion parliament party period persons petition political Poulett Thomson present principles produce protection province Prussia question reform repeal revenue right honourable right honourable friend Rochdale session shew Sir Robert Peel Smith speech Stalybridge success Thomas Clarkson thought Thousand Pounds tion town Upper Canada Villiers vote Walsall