The Progress of the Nation: In Its Various Social and Economical Relations, from the Beginning of the Nineteenth CenturyJ. Murray, 1851 - 846 páginas |
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... Wales during the 18th century - Ages of population , 1821 and 1841 - Population of France , and rate of its increase - Births , Deaths , and Marriages , in England and Wales - In various countries - Mortality of young persons ...
... Wales during the 18th century - Ages of population , 1821 and 1841 - Population of France , and rate of its increase - Births , Deaths , and Marriages , in England and Wales - In various countries - Mortality of young persons ...
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... Wales in each year of the present century - Proportion of payments to population at each decen- nary enumeration - Results of law of 1834 - Poor Law of Ireland - Of Scotland— Methods followed in various countries for relieving the poor ...
... Wales in each year of the present century - Proportion of payments to population at each decen- nary enumeration - Results of law of 1834 - Poor Law of Ireland - Of Scotland— Methods followed in various countries for relieving the poor ...
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... Wales , 1805 to 1849 , and Number of execu- tions - Increased Proportion of Convictions in the later Years - Severity of our Criminal Code and consequent Impunity of Offenders - Reforms in the Criminal Law - Historical Sketch of their ...
... Wales , 1805 to 1849 , and Number of execu- tions - Increased Proportion of Convictions in the later Years - Severity of our Criminal Code and consequent Impunity of Offenders - Reforms in the Criminal Law - Historical Sketch of their ...
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... Wales during the 18th century - Ages of Population , 1821 and 1841 - Population of France , and rate of its increase - Births , Deaths , and Marriages , in England and Wales - In various countries - Mortality of young persons ...
... Wales during the 18th century - Ages of Population , 1821 and 1841 - Population of France , and rate of its increase - Births , Deaths , and Marriages , in England and Wales - In various countries - Mortality of young persons ...
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... Wales the questions were issued to the Overseers of the Poor ' ( an office established in the year 1752 , and too well known for explanation to Englishmen ) , in the administration of which office these overseers are bound to relieve ...
... Wales the questions were issued to the Overseers of the Poor ' ( an office established in the year 1752 , and too well known for explanation to Englishmen ) , in the administration of which office these overseers are bound to relieve ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 294 - ... or breakings down. They will here meet with ruts, which I actually measured, four feet deep, and floating with mud, only from a wet summer.
Página 294 - I know not, in the whole range of language, terms sufficiently expressive to describe this infernal road. Let me most seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally propose to travel this terrible country, to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings down.
Página 380 - Petitioners cannot expect so important a branch of it as the Customs to be given up, nor to be materially diminished, unless some substitute, less objectionable, be suggested.
Página 379 - And the same train of argument, which, with corresponding prohibitions and protective duties, should exclude us from foreign trade, might be brought forward to justify the re-enactment of restrictions upon the interchange of productions (unconnected with public revenue) among the kingdoms composing the union, or among the counties of the same kingdom.
Página 222 - I shall do all that in me lies to discourage the woollen manufacture in Ireland, and encourage the linen manufacture there, and to promote the trade of England.
Página 668 - Behn's novels? — I confessed the charge.- — Whether I could get her a sight of them? — I said, with some hesitation, I believed I could ; but that I did not think she would like either the manners, or the language, which approached too near that of Charles II. 's time to be quite proper reading. 'Nevertheless...
Página 421 - The price of corn in this country has risen from 100 to 200 per cent and upwards, when the utmost computed deficiency of the crops has not been more than between one-sixth and one-third below an average, and when that deficiency has been relieved by foreign supplies.
Página 668 - a very odd thing that I, an old woman of eighty and upwards, sitting alone, feel myself ashamed to read a book which sixty years ago I have heard read aloud for the amusement of large circles, consisting of the first and most creditable society in London...
Página 164 - It has been affirmed, that in Wales the land does not produce half of what it is capable of producing; and that if all England were as well cultivated as Northumberland and Lincoln, it would produce more than double the quantity that is now obtained.
Página 379 - ... have assailed their respective governments with applications for further protective or prohibitory duties and regulations, urging the example and authority of this country, against which they are almost exclusively directed as a sanction for the policy of such measures. And certainly, if the reasoning upon which our restrictions have been defended is worth any thing, it will apply in behalf of the regulations of foreign states against us.