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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... Effect upon Agriculturists of the restoration of a Metallic Cur- rency - Land brought under Cultivation since 1760 - Compared with Increase of Population since 1801 - Surface of cultivated , uncultivated , iv CONTENTS .
... Effect upon Agriculturists of the restoration of a Metallic Cur- rency - Land brought under Cultivation since 1760 - Compared with Increase of Population since 1801 - Surface of cultivated , uncultivated , iv CONTENTS .
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... effects - Increased proportion of power - weaving - Progres- sive extension of cotton factories - Power - looms in various manufactures - Cotton- printing - Effect of removing duty on printed goods - Hosiery - Bobbin - net - Extent and ...
... effects - Increased proportion of power - weaving - Progres- sive extension of cotton factories - Power - looms in various manufactures - Cotton- printing - Effect of removing duty on printed goods - Hosiery - Bobbin - net - Extent and ...
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... effect in increasing the product of coal - mines - Shipments from Newcastle and Sunderland in each year from 1801 to ... Effect upon Society— Former condition of Roads in England - Improvements in public carriages and greater Speed in ...
... effect in increasing the product of coal - mines - Shipments from Newcastle and Sunderland in each year from 1801 to ... Effect upon Society— Former condition of Roads in England - Improvements in public carriages and greater Speed in ...
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... Effect upon Post Communications - Anticipated Improvements Pecuniary Saving to the Public - Railway Accidents - Sums expended in obtaining Acts of Incorporation— Government Survey of Lines in Ireland - Persons employed on Railways ...
... Effect upon Post Communications - Anticipated Improvements Pecuniary Saving to the Public - Railway Accidents - Sums expended in obtaining Acts of Incorporation— Government Survey of Lines in Ireland - Persons employed on Railways ...
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... Effect of Wars and Commercial Systems upon Foreign Trade - Growing Importance of its Commerce to England , arising out of its increasing Population - Influence of extended Markets in preventing ruinous Fluctuations — Impossibility of ...
... Effect of Wars and Commercial Systems upon Foreign Trade - Growing Importance of its Commerce to England , arising out of its increasing Population - Influence of extended Markets in preventing ruinous Fluctuations — Impossibility of ...
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adopted advantage afford agricultural amount annual annum appears average Bank of England branches Britain British capital capital punishment census cent charge circumstances classes coal colonies commercial Commissioners Committee considerable consumption cost cotton debt degree Ditto earnings Edition effect employed employment England and Wales English equal estimate evil expenditure expense exported extent fact favour Fcap Females foreign France given Government greater House of Commons important improvement increase India inhabitants Ireland island labour land London Males manufacture means ment miles millions nearly Nova Scotia number of persons Offences against property Parliament period poor population ports possession Post 8vo present century produce progress proportion Prussia quantity rate of duty repealed respect result returns revenue Scotland Ships silk South Wales Staffordshire statement taxes tion tonnage Tons trade United Kingdom various vessels wages wheat woollen
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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.