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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... equal degree of skill and energy , and a greater amount of capital are employed in the manufacture of wheat , our farmers should not be able to undersell the foreigner , as we now are able to undersell him in manufactures of cotton and ...
... equal degree of skill and energy , and a greater amount of capital are employed in the manufacture of wheat , our farmers should not be able to undersell the foreigner , as we now are able to undersell him in manufactures of cotton and ...
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... equal amount of comforts and conveniences with a lessened application of labour , or , what is better , shall command a greater amount of them through an equal expenditure of toil . Great as are the reforms that since the first ...
... equal amount of comforts and conveniences with a lessened application of labour , or , what is better , shall command a greater amount of them through an equal expenditure of toil . Great as are the reforms that since the first ...
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... equal to the Irish who swell the records of English ports ; and we cannot , perhaps , be far wrong in believing that there is no serious difference one way or the other between the rate of increase experienced in England and Wales in ...
... equal to the Irish who swell the records of English ports ; and we cannot , perhaps , be far wrong in believing that there is no serious difference one way or the other between the rate of increase experienced in England and Wales in ...
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... equal to 79 per cent . , showing an advantage in favour of England in the proportion of more than three to one . If the com- parison be made with reference to the period between 1817 and 1841 , it will be found that , while the increase ...
... equal to 79 per cent . , showing an advantage in favour of England in the proportion of more than three to one . If the com- parison be made with reference to the period between 1817 and 1841 , it will be found that , while the increase ...
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... equal . 1 in 20 Small . 5 5435 4 to 5 3 to 4 1 in 54 1 in 28 1 in 119 Sweden • • 1 in 411 1 in 29 1 in 117 Russia 1 in 25 1 in 23,38 1 in 132 Denmark Mecklenburgh . Saxony Wurtemburg 1 in 40 1 in 34 1 in 123 1 in 46 1 in 27 1 in 124 33 ...
... equal . 1 in 20 Small . 5 5435 4 to 5 3 to 4 1 in 54 1 in 28 1 in 119 Sweden • • 1 in 411 1 in 29 1 in 117 Russia 1 in 25 1 in 23,38 1 in 132 Denmark Mecklenburgh . Saxony Wurtemburg 1 in 40 1 in 34 1 in 123 1 in 46 1 in 27 1 in 124 33 ...
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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.