The Claims Fo the Landed Interests to Legislative Protection Considered: With Reference to the Manner in which the Manufacturing, Commercial, and Agricultural Classes Contribute to National Wealth and Prosperity; and Suitable Remedies for Relieving the Distress and the Latter, Suggested: Addressed to the Most Noble of Marquess of Chandos, and the Committee of the Central Agricultural Society ...

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Ridgway and son, 1836 - Corn laws (Great Britain) - 294 pages

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Page 66 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 66 - And the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the borders round about, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.
Page 282 - ... feet. But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
Page 130 - ... or year to the principal. And in this way it goes on, without being at all reduced, accumulating, till the depositor is able either to buy or build a house, when it comes to be...
Page xviii - First Report of the Commissioners appointed to Inquire into the State of Religious and other Instruction in Ireland...
Page xviii - ... on the habits of the labouring classes in Ireland. Dublin, 1836. 8°. O'Flynn (James). . . .Extracts from a pamphlet on the present state of the Irish poor. To which is added the means of profitable employment for the whole population, both of England and Ireland. London: F. Warr, 1836. I5pp. 8". Parliamentary talk; or, The objections to the late Irish Church bill. Considered in a letter to a friend abroad. By a disciple of Selden [ie, HRV Fox, 3.
Page 7 - Urbino, and of such of the Cartoons whence they were woven, as are now in preservation. With Notes and Illustrations. To which are subjoined, Remarks on the Causes which retard the progress of the higher departments of Paintings in this country. By the Rev. W. GUNN, BD Second Edition, with Additions. " Mr. Gunn's commentary upon this beautiful production (the Nativity) is well written, and contains canons of criticism which we conceive to be in the most correct taste .... Indeed we would strongly...
Page 2 - ... perfectly free. The late multiplication of banking companies in both parts of the United Kingdom, an event by which many people have been much alarmed, instead of diminishing, increases the security of the public.

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