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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... 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 find ...
... 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 find ...
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... Hundreds , the stewardship of which a member of Parliament nominally accepts from the crown when he wishes to resign his seat . When we advance to the front of these hills , we look down on the Vale of Aylesbury , an extensive tract of ...
... Hundreds , the stewardship of which a member of Parliament nominally accepts from the crown when he wishes to resign his seat . When we advance to the front of these hills , we look down on the Vale of Aylesbury , an extensive tract of ...
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... 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 distance ...
... 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 distance ...
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... hundred years ago was so very bad , the crops , the cultivators , and the people all so very poor , that the landowners were driven by necessity to do some- thing for a reformation . The farmers being not only much poorer than those of ...
... hundred years ago was so very bad , the crops , the cultivators , and the people all so very poor , that the landowners were driven by necessity to do some- thing for a reformation . The farmers being not only much poorer than those of ...
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... hundred tracts the moment it escaped into the common . When the law of necessity came in force , as , for instance , at a declivity , or the crossing of a marsh or brook , these tracts re - united for common safety ; but as soon as ...
... hundred tracts the moment it escaped into the common . When the law of necessity came in force , as , for instance , at a declivity , or the crossing of a marsh or brook , these tracts re - united for common safety ; but as soon as ...
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acres agriculture Ballinamuck ben't Berwickshire better bread called Castlebar cattle Clonmel conacre corn corn-law cottages crops cultivation district Dorset draining Dungarvan Earl East Lothian ejectment employed England English expense farm farmers field garden gentleman give grass hand heard horses improved Ireland Irish keep Kilkenny labourers land landlord landowners League lease Limerick live London look Lord Lord John Russell Lordship Lothian manufactures manure Mayo meadows meal ment miles neighbours never oats once paid parish park Parliament persons pigs plough political poor population potatoes present produce profit railway Rathkeale rent rich road Scotland seen sheep shew shillings shillings a-week side Sir Robert Sir Robert Peel Sligo soil squire tell tenantry tenants things tion told town trade trees turnips village wages wheat workhouse young