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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... four - fifths of the House of Lords , and all the agricultural constituencies , that it was just to the other classes of the nation that they should yield , should submit to receive lower incomes and live at less expense . Yet so far as ...
... four - fifths of the House of Lords , and all the agricultural constituencies , that it was just to the other classes of the nation that they should yield , should submit to receive lower incomes and live at less expense . Yet so far as ...
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... four hundred yards from the churchyard , and is altogether , in situation , style , and adorn- ments , so out of keeping with the place where the body lies , ( so I thought , ) that I hastened away from it to find , or ima- gined to ...
... four hundred yards from the churchyard , and is altogether , in situation , style , and adorn- ments , so out of keeping with the place where the body lies , ( so I thought , ) that I hastened away from it to find , or ima- gined to ...
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... four hundred feet , it again declines , and forms the banks of other valleys . And here , where we now stand , we have these heights ploughed to the top on our right , while on our left are woods of goodly timber , stretching to the ...
... four hundred feet , it again declines , and forms the banks of other valleys . And here , where we now stand , we have these heights ploughed to the top on our right , while on our left are woods of goodly timber , stretching to the ...
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... four farmers , one of them paying L.2000 of rent , none of them less than L.1000 , who were at the same school with myself , and never at any other , who were occasionally thrashed as I was , though not so frequently , their fathers ...
... four farmers , one of them paying L.2000 of rent , none of them less than L.1000 , who were at the same school with myself , and never at any other , who were occasionally thrashed as I was , though not so frequently , their fathers ...
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... four quarters an acre . Furze , which was worth about a shilling an acre for fuel , or a bad material for a bad dead fence , was occupying the land which could produce four quarters of wheat , and this because the rich landowners will ...
... four quarters an acre . Furze , which was worth about a shilling an acre for fuel , or a bad material for a bad dead fence , was occupying the land which could produce four quarters of wheat , and this because the rich landowners will ...
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