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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... ( Lord Sydenham ) his alterations in the customs ' duties , 41 . his commercial reforms serve as precedents to Sir Robert Peel , 43 . elected for Manchester ( the fifth time in five years ) , 47 . his letter to Lord John Russell on ...
... ( Lord Sydenham ) his alterations in the customs ' duties , 41 . his commercial reforms serve as precedents to Sir Robert Peel , 43 . elected for Manchester ( the fifth time in five years ) , 47 . his letter to Lord John Russell on ...
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... Lord John Russell's motion * was considered certain . Peel's opposition was intelligible , at least the motive , for the * For the Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts . reasons he gave were certainly not so ; but some 14 FREE TRADE ...
... Lord John Russell's motion * was considered certain . Peel's opposition was intelligible , at least the motive , for the * For the Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts . reasons he gave were certainly not so ; but some 14 FREE TRADE ...
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... Lord John Russell's motion for the repeal of the test and corporation acts , by which that great step towards the triumph of those principles was virtually gained , in the scarcely less famous minority of the 21st of March in favour of ...
... Lord John Russell's motion for the repeal of the test and corporation acts , by which that great step towards the triumph of those principles was virtually gained , in the scarcely less famous minority of the 21st of March in favour of ...
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... Sir Robert Peel and his party as protectionists admitted to office instead . The intense interest felt by Mr Thomson ... Lord John Russell : — " Your finance is what I look to now with most anxiety , I have told Baring that I do not ...
... Sir Robert Peel and his party as protectionists admitted to office instead . The intense interest felt by Mr Thomson ... Lord John Russell : — " Your finance is what I look to now with most anxiety , I have told Baring that I do not ...
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... Lord John Russell himself he writes on the same date , " I have read your speech upon opening the debate on the sugar question with feelings of admiration and pleasure which I cannot describe . The free - traders have never been orators ...
... Lord John Russell himself he writes on the same date , " I have read your speech upon opening the debate on the sugar question with feelings of admiration and pleasure which I cannot describe . The free - traders have never been orators ...
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