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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Page 10
... thousands of older and far more experienced heads . Accordingly , into some of the American mining speculations , set on foot in the spring of 1825 , Mr C. Thomson entered with the energy which was devoted to whatever he undertook . He ...
... thousands of older and far more experienced heads . Accordingly , into some of the American mining speculations , set on foot in the spring of 1825 , Mr C. Thomson entered with the energy which was devoted to whatever he undertook . He ...
Page 39
... thousands - nay , to millions I may say within the great district that encircles your city ? What protection has the cotton trade had ? I answer , none whatever ! Unaided by any legislative enactment - unassisted by the fostering hand ...
... thousands - nay , to millions I may say within the great district that encircles your city ? What protection has the cotton trade had ? I answer , none whatever ! Unaided by any legislative enactment - unassisted by the fostering hand ...
Page 86
... thousands of these poor fellows , whom the compact called rebels , did , if it were only to keep up such a government as they got . The excitement upon responsible government ' is great . Not that I believe the people understand what ...
... thousands of these poor fellows , whom the compact called rebels , did , if it were only to keep up such a government as they got . The excitement upon responsible government ' is great . Not that I believe the people understand what ...
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... thousand times better than theory - why , that in the middle of the last war , when the greatest efforts that were ever resorted to were made to shut us out from the continental markets , we actually imported a larger quantity of corn ...
... thousand times better than theory - why , that in the middle of the last war , when the greatest efforts that were ever resorted to were made to shut us out from the continental markets , we actually imported a larger quantity of corn ...
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... thousand hands , author of pamphlets , " Russia " and " England , Ireland , and America , by a Man- chester manufacturer " ) said , that it appeared to him , whilst listening to the petition just read , that the chamber had gone back ...
... thousand hands , author of pamphlets , " Russia " and " England , Ireland , and America , by a Man- chester manufacturer " ) said , that it appeared to him , whilst listening to the petition just read , that the chamber had gone back ...
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