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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... natural that the young man should feel the confinement and dull routine of a London counting - house extremely irksome ; and his letters at this period contain many complaints of the kind . His anxious desire , indeed , both then and ...
... natural that the young man should feel the confinement and dull routine of a London counting - house extremely irksome ; and his letters at this period contain many complaints of the kind . His anxious desire , indeed , both then and ...
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... natural quickness of compre- hension and tact very soon enabled him to master . And after a probation of a year and a half passed in London , he was once more sent out to St Petersburg in the spring of 1821 , entrusted with a share in ...
... natural quickness of compre- hension and tact very soon enabled him to master . And after a probation of a year and a half passed in London , he was once more sent out to St Petersburg in the spring of 1821 , entrusted with a share in ...
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... natural that he should listen with favour to pro- posals which were made to him in the summer of 1825 , from parties connected with the liberal interest in the borough of Dover , to become a candidate for its representation at the next ...
... natural that he should listen with favour to pro- posals which were made to him in the summer of 1825 , from parties connected with the liberal interest in the borough of Dover , to become a candidate for its representation at the next ...
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... nature . Mr Huskisson , in his own speech at a later period of the debate , alluded to it in the following terms : - " The debate has afforded to the honourable member for Dover an opportunity of manifesting an extraordinary degree of ...
... nature . Mr Huskisson , in his own speech at a later period of the debate , alluded to it in the following terms : - " The debate has afforded to the honourable member for Dover an opportunity of manifesting an extraordinary degree of ...
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... nature of trade . In order to buy , we must also sell . We may open our ports to the silks and wines of France - to the corn of Germany and Russia - to the drugs of Asia and of India - but we can get no pound's worth of any commodity ...
... nature of trade . In order to buy , we must also sell . We may open our ports to the silks and wines of France - to the corn of Germany and Russia - to the drugs of Asia and of India - but we can get no pound's worth of any commodity ...
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