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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Page 11
... present crop to market . The loss by the manure is a positive loss ; the loss by a repeal of the corn - laws is a supposed one ; both of which , with some others , I shall esti- mate in the course of these letters . Meantime , for the ...
... present crop to market . The loss by the manure is a positive loss ; the loss by a repeal of the corn - laws is a supposed one ; both of which , with some others , I shall esti- mate in the course of these letters . Meantime , for the ...
Page 27
... present fruitful- ness . Hitherto , all that has been done has been by sheer industry , protected by a lease , and a moderate attention to the common physiology of vegetation ; but if the abolition of the corn - law brings competition ...
... present fruitful- ness . Hitherto , all that has been done has been by sheer industry , protected by a lease , and a moderate attention to the common physiology of vegetation ; but if the abolition of the corn - law brings competition ...
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... present homes . No. VII . Over a section of Salisbury Plain . - A Sunday in St Giles ' .- A Notice of the Earl of Shaftesbury , Lord Ashley , & c . Having visited Old Sarum , and the old tree where three old freeholders voted at the old ...
... present homes . No. VII . Over a section of Salisbury Plain . - A Sunday in St Giles ' .- A Notice of the Earl of Shaftesbury , Lord Ashley , & c . Having visited Old Sarum , and the old tree where three old freeholders voted at the old ...
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... present fall in wages , left this man , I entered a roadside inn at the distance of half a mile from where he was at work , and there , amongst other things , heard the landlady say " The man you speak of must be John Baillie . He is a ...
... present fall in wages , left this man , I entered a roadside inn at the distance of half a mile from where he was at work , and there , amongst other things , heard the landlady say " The man you speak of must be John Baillie . He is a ...
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... present he would support neither . He had lost all confidence in public men . He had formerly supported those who supported the corn - laws . He still believed that the total abolition of these laws would give a shock to English agricul ...
... present he would support neither . He had lost all confidence in public men . He had formerly supported those who supported the corn - laws . He still believed that the total abolition of these laws would give a shock to English agricul ...
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