The Whistler at the Plough: Containing Travels, Statistics, and Descriptions of Scenery & Agricultural Customs in Most Parts of England: with Letters from Ireland: Also "Free Trade and the League;" a Biographical History, Volume 2James Ainsworth, 1853 - Free trade |
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... house , and passed the winter in the ordinary occu- pations of mercantile business . After so long a holiday , spent in the amusement and excite- ment of foreign travel , it was quite natural that the young man should feel the ...
... house , and passed the winter in the ordinary occu- pations of mercantile business . After so long a holiday , spent in the amusement and excite- ment of foreign travel , it was quite natural that the young man should feel the ...
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... house against a petition . He had , however , succeeded in opening for himself the door of the senate ; he had obtained a footing at least on the arena which he was most anxious to tread , and for which he justly considered himself ...
... house against a petition . He had , however , succeeded in opening for himself the door of the senate ; he had obtained a footing at least on the arena which he was most anxious to tread , and for which he justly considered himself ...
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... house information of a practical cha- racter , with which his mercantile station had made him acquainted . Thus , in the debate on the corn law , on the 6th of April , he spoke against a clause introduced by Mr C. Grant into the corn ...
... house information of a practical cha- racter , with which his mercantile station had made him acquainted . Thus , in the debate on the corn law , on the 6th of April , he spoke against a clause introduced by Mr C. Grant into the corn ...
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... 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 on , it was found that the country gentle- men , who had always ...
... 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 on , it was found that the country gentle- men , who had always ...
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... 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 the speaker was cheered from every quarter , and several members even crossed ...
... 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 the speaker was cheered from every quarter , and several members even crossed ...
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