The Edinburgh Annual Register, Volume 19John Ballantyne and Company, 1828 - Europe |
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... Ministers , by very rapid strides , had liberalized their whole system ; but , above all , they had succeeded in con- vincing the people of their anxious de- sire to lessen the public burdens , by every safe and practicable measure of ...
... Ministers , by very rapid strides , had liberalized their whole system ; but , above all , they had succeeded in con- vincing the people of their anxious de- sire to lessen the public burdens , by every safe and practicable measure of ...
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... Ministers ; to account for which , we must notice a great political change which , ever since the peace , had been silently operating in the opinions of the people . While ancient distinctions were fast disappearing , the nation at ...
... Ministers ; to account for which , we must notice a great political change which , ever since the peace , had been silently operating in the opinions of the people . While ancient distinctions were fast disappearing , the nation at ...
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... ministers the necessity of adopting measures of economy . He maintained , that at the time of the peace no reason whatever existed for the non - reduction of the army . The state of Ireland rendered it necessary , it was said , to ...
... ministers the necessity of adopting measures of economy . He maintained , that at the time of the peace no reason whatever existed for the non - reduction of the army . The state of Ireland rendered it necessary , it was said , to ...
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... Ministers a charge of treating too lightly the distresses which so unfortunately prevailed . He ( the Chancellor ) could solemnly assure the House , that nothing was farther from the feelings or intentions of his Majes- ty's advisers ...
... Ministers a charge of treating too lightly the distresses which so unfortunately prevailed . He ( the Chancellor ) could solemnly assure the House , that nothing was farther from the feelings or intentions of his Majes- ty's advisers ...
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... ministers had contri- buted in no slight degree to produce the effects they had witnessed , by the extravagant issue of their promissory notes , or Exchequer bills , which they had allowed to go forth to the amount of thirty millions ...
... ministers had contri- buted in no slight degree to produce the effects they had witnessed , by the extravagant issue of their promissory notes , or Exchequer bills , which they had allowed to go forth to the amount of thirty millions ...
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