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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... additions were made to the territory of the ancient monarchy . In 1791 , a committee of the Constituent Assembly , appointed for the purpose of inquiring concerning the population of the kingdom , reported that it amounted to 26,363,000 ...
... additions were made to the territory of the ancient monarchy . In 1791 , a committee of the Constituent Assembly , appointed for the purpose of inquiring concerning the population of the kingdom , reported that it amounted to 26,363,000 ...
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... addition to the sum of our economical knowledge . The hospitals of this country , so numerous and so liberally supported , are among the most honourable of our national monuments . The feel- ings of benevolence which prompted their ...
... addition to the sum of our economical knowledge . The hospitals of this country , so numerous and so liberally supported , are among the most honourable of our national monuments . The feel- ings of benevolence which prompted their ...
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... addition to this number , there were admitted in 1849 , 478 cholera patients , of whom 198 died , being in the proportion of 41 42 per cent . two . lomew's Hospital : the average being only 6.91 42 [ SEC . 1 . PROGRESS OF THE NATION .
... addition to this number , there were admitted in 1849 , 478 cholera patients , of whom 198 died , being in the proportion of 41 42 per cent . two . lomew's Hospital : the average being only 6.91 42 [ SEC . 1 . PROGRESS OF THE NATION .
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... addition to those of the agricultural class has been only 7 per cent . , those of the trading and manufacturing class having received an accession to their the same time very nearly doubled in number . numbers 54 [ SEC . I. PROGRESS OF ...
... addition to those of the agricultural class has been only 7 per cent . , those of the trading and manufacturing class having received an accession to their the same time very nearly doubled in number . numbers 54 [ SEC . I. PROGRESS OF ...
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... addition to those causes comes the fact , that there is a constant tendency of the rural population to seek employment in towns , so soon as that period of life is attained at which occupation is assumed , while there is no tendency on ...
... addition to those causes comes the fact , that there is a constant tendency of the rural population to seek employment in towns , so soon as that period of life is attained at which occupation is assumed , while there is no tendency on ...
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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.