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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... parliamentary conduct , he had been spontaneously selected as one of their representatives in parliament , upon the first occasion of their exercising the franchise conferred by the reform act , by the constituency of the most important ...
... parliamentary conduct , he had been spontaneously selected as one of their representatives in parliament , upon the first occasion of their exercising the franchise conferred by the reform act , by the constituency of the most important ...
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... parliament these successive measures , Mr Poulett Thomson , with great tact and judgment , avoided any boasting display , anything like heralding them with a flourish of trumpets , which he rightly considered would only draw the ...
... parliament these successive measures , Mr Poulett Thomson , with great tact and judgment , avoided any boasting display , anything like heralding them with a flourish of trumpets , which he rightly considered would only draw the ...
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... parliament , he found change of air necessary for his health , and made a tour of the Rhine , returning by way of Paris , where he spent the month of October , engaged in endeavours to negociate the arrangements of a commercial treaty ...
... parliament , he found change of air necessary for his health , and made a tour of the Rhine , returning by way of Paris , where he spent the month of October , engaged in endeavours to negociate the arrangements of a commercial treaty ...
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... parliament at the close of the year , Mr Poulett Thomson , then of course out of office , went down to Manchester , and was re - elected by a large majority . Previous to the meeting of the new parliament , Mr Poulett Thomson took a ...
... parliament at the close of the year , Mr Poulett Thomson , then of course out of office , went down to Manchester , and was re - elected by a large majority . Previous to the meeting of the new parliament , Mr Poulett Thomson took a ...
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... parliamentary debates on questions of party warfare . Indeed his services to the public interests throughout his career were chiefly ren- dered in a form and manner which , out of parliament , attracted no general attention at the time ...
... parliamentary debates on questions of party warfare . Indeed his services to the public interests throughout his career were chiefly ren- dered in a form and manner which , out of parliament , attracted no general attention at the time ...
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