The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]1839 |
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Page 356
... corn - laws , becomes as clear as day . The staff of life , which might be procured in the Baltic ports for thirty or forty per cent less than it costs here , can only be obtained , through the operation of protective duties , at that ...
... corn - laws , becomes as clear as day . The staff of life , which might be procured in the Baltic ports for thirty or forty per cent less than it costs here , can only be obtained , through the operation of protective duties , at that ...
Page 362
... Corn Laws . Should hostilities be again inevitable , the funds necessary for a contest , could more promptly be obtained by raising the rate of a small property tax already in existence , than by having to inflict upon the country , de ...
... Corn Laws . Should hostilities be again inevitable , the funds necessary for a contest , could more promptly be obtained by raising the rate of a small property tax already in existence , than by having to inflict upon the country , de ...
Page 455
... corn- laws , which give them high prices , and the Union workhouses which frighten their labourers into the acceptance of low wages ; and the laboring population themselves ignorant , revengeful , and drunken . Hunting , shooting ...
... corn- laws , which give them high prices , and the Union workhouses which frighten their labourers into the acceptance of low wages ; and the laboring population themselves ignorant , revengeful , and drunken . Hunting , shooting ...
Page 549
... Corn Laws . It is clear that if they love corn at all , they must be delighted to pay for it a most exorbitant price , and to have their own market narrowed by an exclusion of the corn of the continent . Love corn and hate Corn Laws ...
... Corn Laws . It is clear that if they love corn at all , they must be delighted to pay for it a most exorbitant price , and to have their own market narrowed by an exclusion of the corn of the continent . Love corn and hate Corn Laws ...
Page 579
... corn laws imposed a tax of fifteen millions sterling upon the prime necessary of life , - that commerce and manufacturing superiority were deserting our shores , through the greater cheapness of the loaf , and therefore of labour , in ...
... corn laws imposed a tax of fifteen millions sterling upon the prime necessary of life , - that commerce and manufacturing superiority were deserting our shores , through the greater cheapness of the loaf , and therefore of labour , in ...
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