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 27
... attention to Mr Thomson , as among public men the best fitted to be his successor . It was , how- ever , found that the personal friends of Mr Ewart , as resident on the spot , had began so early and active a canvass as to make the ...
... attention to Mr Thomson , as among public men the best fitted to be his successor . It was , how- ever , found that the personal friends of Mr Ewart , as resident on the spot , had began so early and active a canvass as to make the ...
Page 31
... attention , was the improvement of the mode of keeping the public accounts , by the commission appointed for the purpose in this year , of which Sir Henry Parnell was chairman and Dr Bowring secretary . To the labours of this commission ...
... attention , was the improvement of the mode of keeping the public accounts , by the commission appointed for the purpose in this year , of which Sir Henry Parnell was chairman and Dr Bowring secretary . To the labours of this commission ...
Page 36
... forward inop- portunely , or so as to obstruct greater and more pressing objects . After passing in review the leading questions which were likely to absorb the attention of the reformed parliament , 36 FREE TRADE AND THE LEAGUE .
... forward inop- portunely , or so as to obstruct greater and more pressing objects . After passing in review the leading questions which were likely to absorb the attention of the reformed parliament , 36 FREE TRADE AND THE LEAGUE .
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... attention of the reformed parliament , the Vice - President of the Board of Trade naturally turned to those plans of reform which were more immediately connected with his own department . And those who recollect the inve- terate ...
... attention of the reformed parliament , the Vice - President of the Board of Trade naturally turned to those plans of reform which were more immediately connected with his own department . And those who recollect the inve- terate ...
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... attention of fiscal reformers had hitherto been directed principally , if not wholly , to a few of the larger articles , such as sugar , coffee , timber , wool , and cotton . But Mr Thomson saw clearly , that while considera- tions of ...
... attention of fiscal reformers had hitherto been directed principally , if not wholly , to a few of the larger articles , such as sugar , coffee , timber , wool , and cotton . But Mr Thomson saw clearly , that while considera- tions of ...
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