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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... feeling then set- ting so strongly towards parliamentary reform . On the 25th March Mr Thomson brought before the house a motion for a committee on the general taxation of the empire , in a speech of remarkable ability , in which he ...
... feeling then set- ting so strongly towards parliamentary reform . On the 25th March Mr Thomson brought before the house a motion for a committee on the general taxation of the empire , in a speech of remarkable ability , in which he ...
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... feeling with which he refers to these attacks , and to the position he then occupied , as his best and ample vindication from them . Those who have lived to the present day , to witness a claim set up to the early advocacy of these same ...
... feeling with which he refers to these attacks , and to the position he then occupied , as his best and ample vindication from them . Those who have lived to the present day , to witness a claim set up to the early advocacy of these same ...
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... feeling of common interest . Make foreign nations dependent upon you for some of their comforts and their ... feelings of affection and of sympathy , which will go farther than anything else to prevent that which in my mind has been ...
... feeling of common interest . Make foreign nations dependent upon you for some of their comforts and their ... feelings of affection and of sympathy , which will go farther than anything else to prevent that which in my mind has been ...
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... feelings of the agricultural party on the question , and their power over the legislature . The government was driven from office , and Sir Robert Peel and his party as protectionists admitted to office instead . The intense interest ...
... feelings of the agricultural party on the question , and their power over the legislature . The government was driven from office , and Sir Robert Peel and his party as protectionists admitted to office instead . The intense interest ...
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... feelings of admiration and pleasure which I cannot describe . The free - traders have never been orators since Mr Pitt's early days . We hammered away with facts and figures , and some argument ; but we could not elevate the subject ...
... feelings of admiration and pleasure which I cannot describe . The free - traders have never been orators since Mr Pitt's early days . We hammered away with facts and figures , and some argument ; but we could not elevate the subject ...
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