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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... foreign travel , it was quite natural that the young man should feel the confinement and dull routine of a London counting - house extremely irksome ; and his letters at this period contain many complaints of the kind . His anxious ...
... foreign travel , it was quite natural that the young man should feel the confinement and dull routine of a London counting - house extremely irksome ; and his letters at this period contain many complaints of the kind . His anxious ...
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... foreign travel , and the society in which he had for some time moved , peculiarly fitted him . He had a remarkable knowledge of many languages , speaking French , German , Russ , and Italian , almost like a native ; and his manner and ...
... foreign travel , and the society in which he had for some time moved , peculiarly fitted him . He had a remarkable knowledge of many languages , speaking French , German , Russ , and Italian , almost like a native ; and his manner and ...
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... foreign ports without getting an equi- valent in return ; and I will venture to say that the producers of foreign commodities , of French silks , and German cloths , with which , according to the statement of these gentlemen , this ...
... foreign ports without getting an equi- valent in return ; and I will venture to say that the producers of foreign commodities , of French silks , and German cloths , with which , according to the statement of these gentlemen , this ...
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... , fully equal to those possessed by Mr Huskisson , together with an intimate knowledge of commercial concerns , acquired from opportunities of practical insight and foreign travel , advantages FREE TRADE AND THE LEAGUE . 27.
... , fully equal to those possessed by Mr Huskisson , together with an intimate knowledge of commercial concerns , acquired from opportunities of practical insight and foreign travel , advantages FREE TRADE AND THE LEAGUE . 27.
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... foreign travel , advantages which that statesman had never possessed . * Added to which there were indications of a firmness and determination of character , coupled with tact and discretion , the want of which in Mr Huskisson was ...
... foreign travel , advantages which that statesman had never possessed . * Added to which there were indications of a firmness and determination of character , coupled with tact and discretion , the want of which in Mr Huskisson was ...
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