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 36
... hundred persons , comprising a large portion of the wealth , respectability , and talent of the town and immediate neigh- bourhood , Mr B. Heywood , the late member for the county , being in the chair . Mr Thomson's speech to this ...
... hundred persons , comprising a large portion of the wealth , respectability , and talent of the town and immediate neigh- bourhood , Mr B. Heywood , the late member for the county , being in the chair . Mr Thomson's speech to this ...
Page 39
... hundreds of 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 ...
... hundreds of 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 ...
Page 41
... hundreds of small , and apparently insigni- ficant , articles , which brought in little to the revenue , while the high duties on them were a grievous obstacle to their use in the arts of manufacture , or their direct consumption . In ...
... hundreds of small , and apparently insigni- ficant , articles , which brought in little to the revenue , while the high duties on them were a grievous obstacle to their use in the arts of manufacture , or their direct consumption . In ...
Page 99
... hundred farmers on horseback at every place , from township to township , with all the etceteras of guns , music , and flags . What is of more importance , my candidates , every where taken from the ensuing elections ; in short , such ...
... hundred farmers on horseback at every place , from township to township , with all the etceteras of guns , music , and flags . What is of more importance , my candidates , every where taken from the ensuing elections ; in short , such ...
Page 162
... hundred and twenty years , he would leave the meeting to form an estimate of the amount that must have been taken out of the pockets of the people during that period for the benefit of the landowners . ( Hear , hear ) . Mr Smith pro ...
... hundred and twenty years , he would leave the meeting to form an estimate of the amount that must have been taken out of the pockets of the people during that period for the benefit of the landowners . ( Hear , hear ) . Mr Smith pro ...
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