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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... manufactures and commerce on one side and agriculture on the other . But having been bred to agricultural employ- ment , and accustomed to think though not to write much ; having travelled some , and been observant in travelling , I was ...
... manufactures and commerce on one side and agriculture on the other . But having been bred to agricultural employ- ment , and accustomed to think though not to write much ; having travelled some , and been observant in travelling , I was ...
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... manufactures , and one of the best producers of wheat . Her people are extremely frugal in their diet . They could produce vast quantities beyond their consumption , and what they cannot eat they will learn to sell . When this and other ...
... manufactures , and one of the best producers of wheat . Her people are extremely frugal in their diet . They could produce vast quantities beyond their consumption , and what they cannot eat they will learn to sell . When this and other ...
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... manufacture of food and clothing , ( we shall say flour and flannels , the materials for which are abundantly supplied by the surrounding country , ) and these buildings stocked with wheels and human hands , labouring and giving birth ...
... manufacture of food and clothing , ( we shall say flour and flannels , the materials for which are abundantly supplied by the surrounding country , ) and these buildings stocked with wheels and human hands , labouring and giving birth ...
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... manufactures and commerce ; they knew there had been complaints of manufac- turing distress , but their knowledge of that distress was indeed very limited , and their notions of its effect on themselves was absolutely a blank . They ...
... manufactures and commerce ; they knew there had been complaints of manufac- turing distress , but their knowledge of that distress was indeed very limited , and their notions of its effect on themselves was absolutely a blank . They ...
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... manufacture ; but the pearl buttons being now used in preference to the covered wires , their employment has failed . Good land here- about maintains one cow on three acres ; what they call middling land has a cow to four or five acres ...
... manufacture ; but the pearl buttons being now used in preference to the covered wires , their employment has failed . Good land here- about maintains one cow on three acres ; what they call middling land has a cow to four or five acres ...
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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