Free Trade and the League: A Biographic History of the Pioneers of Freedom of Opinion, Commercial Enterprise, & Civilisation, in Britain ...James Ainsworth, 1853 - Free trade |
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... England , returned to the south , and passed the winter at Naples . In the summer of the next year the two brothers travelled to England together , by a circuitous route , through the south and west of France , visiting the Pyrenees and ...
... England , returned to the south , and passed the winter at Naples . In the summer of the next year the two brothers travelled to England together , by a circuitous route , through the south and west of France , visiting the Pyrenees and ...
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... England will not only retain , but she will take a yet more forward place in the race of competition for wealth and improvement , which , by the nature of things , she is destined . to run amongst the nations of the world . Place us in ...
... England will not only retain , but she will take a yet more forward place in the race of competition for wealth and improvement , which , by the nature of things , she is destined . to run amongst the nations of the world . Place us in ...
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... England , such a mode of selecting a representative , so honourable to both parties , the constituency and the object of their choice , was , we believe , wholly unprecedented . To Mr Poulett Thomson the honour thus conferred was , from ...
... England , such a mode of selecting a representative , so honourable to both parties , the constituency and the object of their choice , was , we believe , wholly unprecedented . To Mr Poulett Thomson the honour thus conferred was , from ...
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... on the subject of banking and currency , in so far as the severance of the private interests and public business of the Bank of England are concerned . modify his opinions latterly , since , in 1830 , FREE TRADE AND THE LEAGUE . 45.
... on the subject of banking and currency , in so far as the severance of the private interests and public business of the Bank of England are concerned . modify his opinions latterly , since , in 1830 , FREE TRADE AND THE LEAGUE . 45.
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... England . In July of the sub- sequent year , ( 1837 , ) the death of William IV . and the acces- sion of Queen Victoria having occasioned a general election , Mr Thomson proceeded to Manchester , and was elected for the fifth time in ...
... England . In July of the sub- sequent year , ( 1837 , ) the death of William IV . and the acces- sion of Queen Victoria having occasioned a general election , Mr Thomson proceeded to Manchester , and was elected for the fifth time in ...
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Page 155 - To THE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED.
Page 352 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Page 373 - Child, is thy father dead? Father is gone ! Why did they tax his bread? God's will be done ! Mother has sold her bed : Better to die than wed ! Where shall she lay her head? Home we have none ! Father clammed1 thrice a week — God's will be done ! Long for work did he seek, Work he found none.
Page 478 - See these inglorious Cincinnati swarm, Farmers of war, dictators of the farm; Their ploughshare was the sword in hireling hands, Their fields manured by gore of other lands; Safe in their barns, these Sabine tillers sent Their brethren out to battle— why? for rent! Year after year they voted cent, per cent., Blood, sweat, and tear-wrung millions— why, for rent!
Page 262 - By this bill a board of control was erected, consisting of six members of the privy council, who were "to check, superintend and control all acts, operations and concerns which in anywise relate to the civil or military government or revenues of the territories and possessions of the East India company.
Page 375 - POET'S EPITAPH. Stop, Mortal ! Here thy brother lies, The Poet of the Poor. His books were rivers, woods, and skies, The meadow, and the moor; His teachers were the torn hearts...
Page 354 - The difference, and the only difference, is this; that, in the one case we consider what we shall gain or lose in the present world ; in the other case, we consider also what we shall gain or lose in the world to come.
Page 338 - What I learnt afterwards was — that though no attendance more than one was ever bestowed, three were on every occasion regularly charged for ; for each of the two falsely pretended attendances, .the client being, by the Solicitor, charged with a fee for himself, as also with a fee of 6s.
Page 93 - But when they came to their own affairs, and, above all, to the money matters, there was a scene of confusion and riot of which no one in England can have any idea. Every man proposes a vote for his own job; and bills are introduced without notice, and carried through all their stages in a quarter of an hour!
Page 478 - d , they dined , they drank , they swore they meant To die for England— why then live?— for rent! The peace has made one general malcontent Of these high-market patriots; war was rent! Their love of country, millions all misspent, How reconcile? by reconciling rent!