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 43
... Hume , attest that the more recent enlarged alterations of the tariff effected by Sir Robert Peel and Mr Gladstone , are , to a great extent , but the realiz- ation of projects and the carrying out of principles laid down . by Mr ...
... Hume , attest that the more recent enlarged alterations of the tariff effected by Sir Robert Peel and Mr Gladstone , are , to a great extent , but the realiz- ation of projects and the carrying out of principles laid down . by Mr ...
Page 45
... Hume , in favour of a moderate fixed duty , in place of the fluctuating or sliding scale of the law of 1828. In this debate , on the 7th March , Mr Poulett Thomson delivered an able speech . Events have since most forcibly confirmed the ...
... Hume , in favour of a moderate fixed duty , in place of the fluctuating or sliding scale of the law of 1828. In this debate , on the 7th March , Mr Poulett Thomson delivered an able speech . Events have since most forcibly confirmed the ...
Page 54
... Hume and a numerically insignificant section of the House of Commons in denouncing the fluctuating scale then established , and recommending a low fixed duty in its place . In 1830 , when called on to accept place under the government ...
... Hume and a numerically insignificant section of the House of Commons in denouncing the fluctuating scale then established , and recommending a low fixed duty in its place . In 1830 , when called on to accept place under the government ...
Page 122
... Hume's motion for a fixed duty on foreign corn , instead of the sliding scale of 1823. Manchester , peopled by the sons of those who had burned the Prime Minister , Pitt , in effigy , because of his free trade measures of 1785 , had ...
... Hume's motion for a fixed duty on foreign corn , instead of the sliding scale of 1823. Manchester , peopled by the sons of those who had burned the Prime Minister , Pitt , in effigy , because of his free trade measures of 1785 , had ...
Page 283
... Hume's History of England , Joyce's Scientific Dialogues , the use of the Globes , and the principal facts and moral precepts of the Gospel ; most of them writing beautifully in the Persian , and very tolerably in the English character ...
... Hume's History of England , Joyce's Scientific Dialogues , the use of the Globes , and the principal facts and moral precepts of the Gospel ; most of them writing beautifully in the Persian , and very tolerably in the English character ...
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