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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... period contain many complaints of the kind . His anxious desire , indeed , both then and for some time after , was to exchange the occupation he had so far engaged in for that of diplomacy , for which both his natural and acquired quali ...
... period contain many complaints of the kind . His anxious desire , indeed , both then and for some time after , was to exchange the occupation he had so far engaged in for that of diplomacy , for which both his natural and acquired quali ...
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... period , in which he occasionally records as a " lost day " one in which he had been able to add nothing to his previous acquirements . In the winter of 1822 and spring of 1823 , he took a journey to Moscow , and thence through the ...
... period , in which he occasionally records as a " lost day " one in which he had been able to add nothing to his previous acquirements . In the winter of 1822 and spring of 1823 , he took a journey to Moscow , and thence through the ...
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... period of universal excitement , carried away thousands of older and far more experienced heads . Accordingly , into some of the American mining speculations , set on foot in the spring of 1825 , Mr C. Thomson entered with the energy ...
... period of universal excitement , carried away thousands of older and far more experienced heads . Accordingly , into some of the American mining speculations , set on foot in the spring of 1825 , Mr C. Thomson entered with the energy ...
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... period of the debate , alluded to it in the following terms : - " The debate has afforded to the honourable member for Dover an opportunity of manifesting an extraordinary degree of acuteness and knowledge in respect to the commerce and ...
... period of the debate , alluded to it in the following terms : - " The debate has afforded to the honourable member for Dover an opportunity of manifesting an extraordinary degree of acuteness and knowledge in respect to the commerce and ...
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... period , may shew the opinion he had been led to form on the reserve necessary for obtaining parliamentary success , and the modest anticipations entertained by him of his future prospects . 66 My dear 66 London , February 28 , 1828 ...
... period , may shew the opinion he had been led to form on the reserve necessary for obtaining parliamentary success , and the modest anticipations entertained by him of his future prospects . 66 My dear 66 London , February 28 , 1828 ...
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