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 |
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... Commons . Mr C. Thomson , moreover , entertained strong opinions of a liberal character on the more ordinary political questions of the age these principles were entirely self - formed . Those of his family - of his father certainly ...
... Commons . Mr C. Thomson , moreover , entertained strong opinions of a liberal character on the more ordinary political questions of the age these principles were entirely self - formed . Those of his family - of his father certainly ...
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... Commons shewed the decided line he had already taken as an advocate of the free- dom of trade and removal of unwise protecting duties . He divided , on the 16th of March 1827 , in the small minority of sixteen in favour of Mr Hume's ...
... Commons shewed the decided line he had already taken as an advocate of the free- dom of trade and removal of unwise protecting duties . He divided , on the 16th of March 1827 , in the small minority of sixteen in favour of Mr Hume's ...
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... Commons which gave weight and authority to his opinions ; and he might fairly indulge the hope of being enabled to advance the cause he had so much at heart , from a situation of still greater influence , should ill- health or accident ...
... Commons which gave weight and authority to his opinions ; and he might fairly indulge the hope of being enabled to advance the cause he had so much at heart , from a situation of still greater influence , should ill- health or accident ...
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... Commons , ay , 600 of the 650 senators , are opposed upon principle to any change , be it what it may ; and a whole session could be readily spent by them in considering whether they had better con- sider . " Mr Thomson himself , though ...
... Commons , ay , 600 of the 650 senators , are opposed upon principle to any change , be it what it may ; and a whole session could be readily spent by them in considering whether they had better con- sider . " Mr Thomson himself , though ...
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... Commons , and the motion , though supported by the great body of the Whig party , was , of course , lost on a division . The seeds , however , were thus sown of an improved system of taxation . In Mr Thomson's speech are to be found the ...
... Commons , and the motion , though supported by the great body of the Whig party , was , of course , lost on a division . The seeds , however , were thus sown of an improved system of taxation . In Mr Thomson's speech are to be found the ...
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