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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... taken so great a liking for him , that he broke through all the habits of his hermit - like existence , actually took up his residence at Dover , canvassed daily for him , opened his house , and allowed himself to be accessible to all ...
... taken so great a liking for him , that he broke through all the habits of his hermit - like existence , actually took up his residence at Dover , canvassed daily for him , opened his house , and allowed himself to be accessible to all ...
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... taken as an advocate of the free- dom of trade and removal of unwise protecting duties . He divided , on the 16th of March 1827 , in the small minority of sixteen in favour of Mr Hume's motion on the corn law , which embodied in part ...
... taken as an advocate of the free- dom of trade and removal of unwise protecting duties . He divided , on the 16th of March 1827 , in the small minority of sixteen in favour of Mr Hume's motion on the corn law , which embodied in part ...
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... taken them for the period of five years . If any of the regulations of the Custom- house have made a nearer approach to free trade , it is since the year 1825 that they have done so . I take , therefore , the two years previous and the ...
... taken them for the period of five years . If any of the regulations of the Custom- house have made a nearer approach to free trade , it is since the year 1825 that they have done so . I take , therefore , the two years previous and the ...
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... taken from the pockets of the people . He shewed to how great an extent many taxes on the raw materials of our industry checked commerce and the creation of wealth , and thus not only im- poverished the people , but diminished the fund ...
... taken from the pockets of the people . He shewed to how great an extent many taxes on the raw materials of our industry checked commerce and the creation of wealth , and thus not only im- poverished the people , but diminished the fund ...
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... taken in the debates of the house and in the proceedings of its committees , on questions connected with commerce and finance , had proved him to possess not only a clear practical acquaintance with the details of these subjects , but ...
... taken in the debates of the house and in the proceedings of its committees , on questions connected with commerce and finance , had proved him to possess not only a clear practical acquaintance with the details of these subjects , but ...
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