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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... turned to eagerly , but nothing was signed there , nor had any- thing been signed ; so thinking this designation of myself , which was at least truthful , might do , I appended it . After some doubt , I thought of trying the Morning ...
... turned to eagerly , but nothing was signed there , nor had any- thing been signed ; so thinking this designation of myself , which was at least truthful , might do , I appended it . After some doubt , I thought of trying the Morning ...
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... turned old Taplow and all his magnificence into meadows and mud . The mind swells even beyond the breadth of view , broad as that is , when the eye looks from this exalted paradise . We see the noble river in the vigour of its youth ...
... turned old Taplow and all his magnificence into meadows and mud . The mind swells even beyond the breadth of view , broad as that is , when the eye looks from this exalted paradise . We see the noble river in the vigour of its youth ...
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... turning water - wheels , floats calmly along , and , as if conscious of having done its duty , prepares for the eternity into which it is about to enter the sweeping Thames . As we linger , the loveliness grows upon us ; and apples in ...
... turning water - wheels , floats calmly along , and , as if conscious of having done its duty , prepares for the eternity into which it is about to enter the sweeping Thames . As we linger , the loveliness grows upon us ; and apples in ...
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... , and the beans had been such a meagre crop , at the same time the owner of them was so full of complaints about hard times , that I turned from the scene with shame . And I was within a few 22 THE WHISTLER AT THE PLOUGH .
... , and the beans had been such a meagre crop , at the same time the owner of them was so full of complaints about hard times , that I turned from the scene with shame . And I was within a few 22 THE WHISTLER AT THE PLOUGH .
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... it may be as well for them to live the mean life of breeders of geese , rather than be turned out to labour for wages less than the price of food . But the right of an individual is not THE WHISTLER AT THE PLOUGH . 31.
... it may be as well for them to live the mean life of breeders of geese , rather than be turned out to labour for wages less than the price of food . But the right of an individual is not THE WHISTLER AT THE PLOUGH . 31.
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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