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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... export trade , the curtail- ment of their own commerce , and the suffering of their own people . If by some magic wand the nations of the Continent could suddenly surround their dominions with the wall of brass fabled by Bishop Berkeley ...
... export trade , the curtail- ment of their own commerce , and the suffering of their own people . If by some magic wand the nations of the Continent could suddenly surround their dominions with the wall of brass fabled by Bishop Berkeley ...
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... export of wines from Bordeaux and other places has been from 10,000 to 30,000 hogsheads . They must follow our example . It is no more in the power of governments to uphold for long than it is for the interests of nations to suffer such ...
... export of wines from Bordeaux and other places has been from 10,000 to 30,000 hogsheads . They must follow our example . It is no more in the power of governments to uphold for long than it is for the interests of nations to suffer such ...
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... Exports , which had been abolished for the sake of a petty economy two years before ; -a change of great value to all statistical investigations , and , indeed , Mr Huskisson must have been long at a disadvantage in not being ...
... Exports , which had been abolished for the sake of a petty economy two years before ; -a change of great value to all statistical investigations , and , indeed , Mr Huskisson must have been long at a disadvantage in not being ...
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... but when constituted , the exports of British manufactures to France did not amount to half a million * See Dr Bowring's Report , 1834 . sterling . In consequence of the changes introduced , though FREE TRADE AND THE LEAGUE . 31.
... but when constituted , the exports of British manufactures to France did not amount to half a million * See Dr Bowring's Report , 1834 . sterling . In consequence of the changes introduced , though FREE TRADE AND THE LEAGUE . 31.
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... exports were quadrupled . They amounted in 1840 to more than two millions . * In the ensuing session Mr Thomson had ... export of French raw silk . The lowering of the tonnage on British vessels to one - third of its previous amount ...
... exports were quadrupled . They amounted in 1840 to more than two millions . * In the ensuing session Mr Thomson had ... export of French raw silk . The lowering of the tonnage on British vessels to one - third of its previous amount ...
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