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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... reform . On the 25th March Mr Thomson brought before the house a motion for a committee on the general taxation of the empire , in a speech of remarkable ability , in which he passed in review the whole system of our fiscal policy , and ...
... reform . On the 25th March Mr Thomson brought before the house a motion for a committee on the general taxation of the empire , in a speech of remarkable ability , in which he passed in review the whole system of our fiscal policy , and ...
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... reform ministry - even for Lord Althorp's influence ; and , on a division on the 18th of March , the timber duties were lost by a majority of 236 to 190. The justification of the proposal then made is to be found in its reproduction ten ...
... reform ministry - even for Lord Althorp's influence ; and , on a division on the 18th of March , the timber duties were lost by a majority of 236 to 190. The justification of the proposal then made is to be found in its reproduction ten ...
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... reform act ; but , unwilling to give up the time necessary for canvassing so extensive a constituency , he had declined the proposal . Upon being further urged , he ex- pressed his willingness to sit for Manchester , if elected , but ...
... reform act ; but , unwilling to give up the time necessary for canvassing so extensive a constituency , he had declined the proposal . Upon being further urged , he ex- pressed his willingness to sit for Manchester , if elected , but ...
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... reform act , by the constituency of the most important seat of manufacturing industry in the empire . Instances of such elections have occasionally oc- curred in France ; but in the history of parliamentary elec- tions in England , such ...
... reform act , by the constituency of the most important seat of manufacturing industry in the empire . Instances of such elections have occasionally oc- curred in France ; but in the history of parliamentary elec- tions in England , such ...
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... reform act had been carried . The word finality had been spoken at Lancaster by Lord Stanley . It had naturally grated harshly in the cars of many ardent and conscientious reformers , who saw plainly that the evils of the nomination ...
... reform act had been carried . The word finality had been spoken at Lancaster by Lord Stanley . It had naturally grated harshly in the cars of many ardent and conscientious reformers , who saw plainly that the evils of the nomination ...
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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!