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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... speech , which was replete with facts , throwing a strong and convincing light upon the subject , was ably delivered , and received with very general approbation from both sides of the house , as one of a most promising nature . Mr ...
... speech , which was replete with facts , throwing a strong and convincing light upon the subject , was ably delivered , and received with very general approbation from both sides of the house , as one of a most promising nature . Mr ...
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... speech which I made last year , which gained me what little credit I have , is the best illustration of the principal one . A man who tells the house facts with which the majority are unacquainted is sure to be listened to , and a ...
... speech which I made last year , which gained me what little credit I have , is the best illustration of the principal one . A man who tells the house facts with which the majority are unacquainted is sure to be listened to , and a ...
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... speech of great ability , which made a strong impression upon the house , and the government expressing itself favourable to the principle of the measure , leave was given to bring in the bill . When , however , the second reading came ...
... speech of great ability , which made a strong impression upon the house , and the government expressing itself favourable to the principle of the measure , leave was given to bring in the bill . When , however , the second reading came ...
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... speech of extraordi- nary power and ability , which , for its effect upon the house , has been rarely equalled , certainly not by any speech made upon a topic of so dry and practical a question of economical policy . On its conclusion ...
... speech of extraordi- nary power and ability , which , for its effect upon the house , has been rarely equalled , certainly not by any speech made upon a topic of so dry and practical a question of economical policy . On its conclusion ...
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... 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 not , however , in any spirit of rivalry towards that wise ...
... 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 not , however , in any spirit of rivalry towards that wise ...
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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!