The Whistler at the Plough: Containing Travels, Statistics, and Descriptions of Scenery & Agricultural Customs in Most Parts of England, with Letters from Ireland : Also "Free Trade and the League;" a Biographic History, Volume 1J. Ainsworth, 1852 - Free trade |
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... expense . Yet so far as I had listened to anti - corn - law speeches or had read them , the advocates of free trade looked for success by these means , and these only . I speak of the time previous to 1842 . Wherefore , believing that ...
... expense . Yet so far as I had listened to anti - corn - law speeches or had read them , the advocates of free trade looked for success by these means , and these only . I speak of the time previous to 1842 . Wherefore , believing that ...
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... expense in the production of wheat ; these all formed subjects of inquiry for me , at the suggestion of Mr Cobden ; and for the attainment of the facts involved in them I travelled over many thousands of miles of the rural districts ...
... expense in the production of wheat ; these all formed subjects of inquiry for me , at the suggestion of Mr Cobden ; and for the attainment of the facts involved in them I travelled over many thousands of miles of the rural districts ...
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... expenses of such assistants as myself . This interview occurred , I think , on the 24th of August 1842 , and on the 25th I proceeded on a journey into Bucking- hamshire , as related in No. I. of " Notes from the Farming Districts ...
... expenses of such assistants as myself . This interview occurred , I think , on the 24th of August 1842 , and on the 25th I proceeded on a journey into Bucking- hamshire , as related in No. I. of " Notes from the Farming Districts ...
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... expense may be saved by collecting and applying what is absolutely wasting in his farm steading . " And once more ... expenses out of their own funds . he Now when the manure of the farm - yard is so wasted as we see it ; when it is so ...
... expense may be saved by collecting and applying what is absolutely wasting in his farm steading . " And once more ... expenses out of their own funds . he Now when the manure of the farm - yard is so wasted as we see it ; when it is so ...
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... expense as the best farms seen by Mr Greg , save , perhaps , those adjoining Edinburgh , where advantages are found not common to more rural districts . What , then , did Mr Greg see ? He enumerates the farms he visited ; and of those ...
... expense as the best farms seen by Mr Greg , save , perhaps , those adjoining Edinburgh , where advantages are found not common to more rural districts . What , then , did Mr Greg see ? He enumerates the farms he visited ; and of those ...
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