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Page 73
... Legislation , Worse than any badger's hole ! All our walls with damps are wetted , And within our reeking den , We ... CORN LAWS AND THE CROWN . THE EARL OF DERBY has proved that - The dear loaf is the brightest jewel in HER MAJESTY'S ...
... Legislation , Worse than any badger's hole ! All our walls with damps are wetted , And within our reeking den , We ... CORN LAWS AND THE CROWN . THE EARL OF DERBY has proved that - The dear loaf is the brightest jewel in HER MAJESTY'S ...
Page 113
... Corn Laws . Then , Protection will be complete . HG THE SALE AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE . WHEN we saw the auctioneer's placards desecrating the crystal , or rather staining the glass , of the Great Exhibition building , we felt a sort of ...
... Corn Laws . Then , Protection will be complete . HG THE SALE AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE . WHEN we saw the auctioneer's placards desecrating the crystal , or rather staining the glass , of the Great Exhibition building , we felt a sort of ...
Page 117
... Corn Laws ; and if fixed duty , or sliding scale . Don't they wish they may get it ! Twelve schemes for redistribution of local taxation , so as to ease farmer . All very fine ; but how is it to be done ? Talking won't do , now one is ...
... Corn Laws ; and if fixed duty , or sliding scale . Don't they wish they may get it ! Twelve schemes for redistribution of local taxation , so as to ease farmer . All very fine ; but how is it to be done ? Talking won't do , now one is ...
Page 158
... Corn Laws . " " Fire . And down with the League . " : - We think the Protectionist Cabinet has lost considerably by foregoing this original idea . Pipe - clay would have well symbolised the purity of Protection ; and patriotism have met ...
... Corn Laws . " " Fire . And down with the League . " : - We think the Protectionist Cabinet has lost considerably by foregoing this original idea . Pipe - clay would have well symbolised the purity of Protection ; and patriotism have met ...
Page 174
... Corn Laws , wrong as they may be . The Brazen Head thinks the Ballot " un - English . " And the Brazen Head has a particular knowledge of what is " un - English , " from its multifarious dealings with other people's " Spanish . " The ...
... Corn Laws , wrong as they may be . The Brazen Head thinks the Ballot " un - English . " And the Brazen Head has a particular knowledge of what is " un - English , " from its multifarious dealings with other people's " Spanish . " The ...
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advertisement Baker Beignet BENJAMIN DISRAELI better Bill BISHOP British Bulberry BULL called Chalker CHANCELLOR Church COLONEL SIBTHORP Corn Laws coup d'état course Court Crystal Palace dear DERBY dinner DISRAELI doubt Downing Street DUKE Eagle EARL election England English fact feel FITZROY KELLY Fogie France French gentleman give gold Government hand head hear heard heart honour hope House of Commons JOHN BULL joke Koh-i-Noor lady late London look LORD DERBY LORD JOHN LORD JOHN RUSSELL LORD PALMERSTON LOUIS NAPOLEON means Member ment mind Minister morning nation never noble Office PALMERSTON papa Parliament party perhaps person political poor pounds present President Prince Protectionist Punch question Railway sort SPRIGGLES Street suppose sure tell there's thing thought turn wonder words young
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Page 198 - Her home is on the deep. With thunders from her native oak She quells the floods below, As they roar on the shore, When the stormy winds do blow...
Page 93 - Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes : Those scraps are good deeds past ; which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done...
Page 34 - Purchase one not over big ; Coarse ones are not worth a fig ; So a young one buy. See that he is scalded well (That is done by those who sell), Therefore on that point to dwell Were absurdity. Sage and bread, mix just enough, Salt and pepper quantum suff., And the pig's interior stuff, With the whole combined.