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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... brought to bear upon their discussion , the desire to take part in these debates . It was not difficult to perceive that the time was favourable for men of practical experience in commercial affairs , not only to obtain a hearing , but ...
... brought to bear upon their discussion , the desire to take part in these debates . It was not difficult to perceive that the time was favourable for men of practical experience in commercial affairs , not only to obtain a hearing , but ...
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... brought into active exertion - powers which , applied in the career of public life , enabled him subse- quently , not merely to reflect lustre on his connections and on the mercantile class to which he belonged , but materially to ...
... brought into active exertion - powers which , applied in the career of public life , enabled him subse- quently , not merely to reflect lustre on his connections and on the mercantile class to which he belonged , but materially to ...
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... brought to the discussion such an amount of information , of a novel and interesting character , relative to the details of the manufacture , the circumstances affecting it , and its actual and comparative condition - his treatment of ...
... brought to the discussion such an amount of information , of a novel and interesting character , relative to the details of the manufacture , the circumstances affecting it , and its actual and comparative condition - his treatment of ...
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... brought before the house the alleged coercion of the voters of Newark , at the recent elec- tion of Mr Sadler by the Duke of Newcastle , which had been defended by that nobleman in a published letter containing the celebrated phrase ...
... brought before the house the alleged coercion of the voters of Newark , at the recent elec- tion of Mr Sadler by the Duke of Newcastle , which had been defended by that nobleman in a published letter containing the celebrated phrase ...
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... brought forward , or spoke in favour of , the reduction of the stamps on newspapers , of the duties on foreign lead , on sea - borne coals , and on sugar , and took an active part in the several debates on ques- tions relating to the ...
... brought forward , or spoke in favour of , the reduction of the stamps on newspapers , of the duties on foreign lead , on sea - borne coals , and on sugar , and took an active part in the several debates on ques- tions relating to the ...
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