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 15
... election . God forbid we should have one just now , but things looks ominous . The King has certainly been very bad for some time , and those about him begin to allow that he is not immortal . God save him ! for a general election would ...
... election . God forbid we should have one just now , but things looks ominous . The King has certainly been very bad for some time , and those about him begin to allow that he is not immortal . God save him ! for a general election would ...
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... election in August and the meeting of the new parliament at the end of October was passed by Mr Thomson in Paris , where events of such extra- ordinary interest and importance had so recently occurred . During this absence from Britain ...
... election in August and the meeting of the new parliament at the end of October was passed by Mr Thomson in Paris , where events of such extra- ordinary interest and importance had so recently occurred . During this absence from Britain ...
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... ELECTION FOR MANCHESTER . Mr Poulett Thomson had now attained a position which enabled him to introduce into practice those improvements in the fiscal policy of the government which he had advocated while out of office ; and to this ...
... ELECTION FOR MANCHESTER . Mr Poulett Thomson had now attained a position which enabled him to introduce into practice those improvements in the fiscal policy of the government which he had advocated while out of office ; and to this ...
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... election . He determined to resist this imposition at all risks , and they will be believed to have been considerable by those who re- member the bitter and malicious spirit in which he and other members of the administration were ...
... election . He determined to resist this imposition at all risks , and they will be believed to have been considerable by those who re- member the bitter and malicious spirit in which he and other members of the administration were ...
Page 34
... election under the reform act ; but , unwilling to give up the time necessary for canvassing so extensive a constituency , he had declined the proposal . Upon being further urged , he ex- pressed his willingness to sit for Manchester ...
... election under the reform act ; but , unwilling to give up the time necessary for canvassing so extensive a constituency , he had declined the proposal . Upon being further urged , he ex- pressed his willingness to sit for Manchester ...
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