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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... five miles . the intermediate space being farm fields , lovely in situation- lovely despite their weedy foulness and mismanagement . The Wyke rivulet , meandering through the meadows , is studded with flour and paper mills ; and the ...
... five miles . the intermediate space being farm fields , lovely in situation- lovely despite their weedy foulness and mismanagement . The Wyke rivulet , meandering through the meadows , is studded with flour and paper mills ; and the ...
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... five weeks with him , have seen every straw cut down ; have then penetrated into Northumberland , reached Morpeth or the later districts of Durham , and had two or three weeks more . Having finished off there , we have returned to our ...
... five weeks with him , have seen every straw cut down ; have then penetrated into Northumberland , reached Morpeth or the later districts of Durham , and had two or three weeks more . Having finished off there , we have returned to our ...
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... five days of the week , and - the tawse ; writing , and the tawse ; arithmetic , and -the tawse , all of which lasted over a space of six years . I was as seldom in mischief as any one ; and , when I got any encouragement , more zealous ...
... five days of the week , and - the tawse ; writing , and the tawse ; arithmetic , and -the tawse , all of which lasted over a space of six years . I was as seldom in mischief as any one ; and , when I got any encouragement , more zealous ...
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... five miles ; in others , eight miles ; and in some , from ten to twenty miles , over a country not producing sixpence an acre , which , in two or three years , might be made to produce , per acre , several quarters of grain . The ...
... five miles ; in others , eight miles ; and in some , from ten to twenty miles , over a country not producing sixpence an acre , which , in two or three years , might be made to produce , per acre , several quarters of grain . The ...
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... five shillings the acre than the farmers pay . Lord Shaftesbury has also given a few allotments , but several families are still without them , because of the hostility which the farmers evince to any such system ; they will take no man ...
... five shillings the acre than the farmers pay . Lord Shaftesbury has also given a few allotments , but several families are still without them , because of the hostility which the farmers evince to any such system ; they will take no man ...
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