Annual Register, Volume 84Edmund Burke 1843 - History |
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... whole House , to take into consideration the laws which affect the importa- tion of Corn . He added , that he would have fixed an earlier day for the discussion of the question , but that he wished first to lay some papers which were ...
... whole House , to take into consideration the laws which affect the importa- tion of Corn . He added , that he would have fixed an earlier day for the discussion of the question , but that he wished first to lay some papers which were ...
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... whole 306 pounds . This would give , for the 124 towns , the consumption for each individual of one bushel of wheat ... whole , the annual average importation of foreign corn was very considerably smaller . In proof of this , I beg to ...
... whole 306 pounds . This would give , for the 124 towns , the consumption for each individual of one bushel of wheat ... whole , the annual average importation of foreign corn was very considerably smaller . In proof of this , I beg to ...
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... whole House on the Corn - laws . Lord John Russell then rose to bring forward his amendment ; the cry , he observed , was no longer " No surrender ; " but the ques- tion was now as to the terms of the capitulation . If , however , the ...
... whole House on the Corn - laws . Lord John Russell then rose to bring forward his amendment ; the cry , he observed , was no longer " No surrender ; " but the ques- tion was now as to the terms of the capitulation . If , however , the ...
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... whole history of the country since the introduction of manufac- tures , disproved the assertion that the increase of machinery dimin- ishes employment ; for markets have always been created or ex- tended in proportion to the in- crease ...
... whole history of the country since the introduction of manufac- tures , disproved the assertion that the increase of machinery dimin- ishes employment ; for markets have always been created or ex- tended in proportion to the in- crease ...
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... a man in ex- cellent bodily health may , from family afflictions and pecuniary difficulties , be on the whole worse off than the invalid ; but that does not shake the truth of the principle , that 44 ] ANNUAL REGISTER , 1842 .
... a man in ex- cellent bodily health may , from family afflictions and pecuniary difficulties , be on the whole worse off than the invalid ; but that does not shake the truth of the principle , that 44 ] ANNUAL REGISTER , 1842 .
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Page 42 - And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
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Page 274 - ... send the case by letters of request to the Court of Appeal of the province, to be there heard and determined according to the law and practice of such court...
Page 141 - They tell us that nothing will " unshackle labour from its misery, until the people possess that power under which all monopoly and oppression must cease; and your petitioners respectfully mention the existing monopolies of the suffrage, of paper money, of machinery, of land, of the public press, of religion, of the means of travelling and transit, and a host of other evils too numerous to mention, all arising from class legislation.
Page 382 - Affghanistan, not from any deficiency of means to maintain our position, but because we are satisfied that the king we have set up, has not, as we were erroneously led to imagine, the support of the nation over which he has been placed.