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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... Huskisson's ill health , and the same circumstance might readily suggest to Mr Thomson the desire to bring all the assistance in his power to the minister , of whose policy upon this and other economical questions he so thoroughly ...
... Huskisson's ill health , and the same circumstance might readily suggest to Mr Thomson the desire to bring all the assistance in his power to the minister , of whose policy upon this and other economical questions he so thoroughly ...
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... Huskisson's measures for the improvement of the navigation laws , against the attacks of Mr Robinson and General Gascoigne , and alluded , in terms of indignation , to the scurrilous and malignant treatment with which that wise ...
... Huskisson's measures for the improvement of the navigation laws , against the attacks of Mr Robinson and General Gascoigne , and alluded , in terms of indignation , to the scurrilous and malignant treatment with which that wise ...
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... Huskisson , and had , of course , been forestalled by him in the statement of the most material facts bearing upon ... Huskisson's com- mercial policy . The latter part of this speech is well worth reproducing , for the general arguments ...
... Huskisson , and had , of course , been forestalled by him in the statement of the most material facts bearing upon ... Huskisson's com- mercial policy . The latter part of this speech is well worth reproducing , for the general arguments ...
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... Huskisson was naturally expected to make his most brilliant speeches , since the entire merit of his system of policy was on its trial in the two great debates of this and the preceding year on the shipping and silk questions . It was ...
... Huskisson was naturally expected to make his most brilliant speeches , since the entire merit of his system of policy was on its trial in the two great debates of this and the preceding year on the shipping and silk questions . It was ...
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... Huskisson at this time , and in his position of a responsible minister of the crown , had yet ventured to avow ; and ... Huskisson's valuable services . The convictions which experience at this time had taught him as to the difficulty of ...
... Huskisson at this time , and in his position of a responsible minister of the crown , had yet ventured to avow ; and ... Huskisson's valuable services . The convictions which experience at this time had taught him as to the difficulty of ...
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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!