A Letter to the Electors of Westminster, Issue 1 |
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... air . ARISTOCRAT . I assure you , Madam , it is not vanity that prompts me in the selection of my nom de guerre ; which I adopt simply as indicating the social and political bias of my mind . Nor does its unpopu- 5 PROTECTION. ...
... air . ARISTOCRAT . I assure you , Madam , it is not vanity that prompts me in the selection of my nom de guerre ; which I adopt simply as indicating the social and political bias of my mind . Nor does its unpopu- 5 PROTECTION. ...
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... assure you , it serves , by disgusting their readers , to induce them to take for granted what they find it impossible to understand . Quintilian lays it down , that a writer's obscurity is usually in proportion to his incapacity ; yet ...
... assure you , it serves , by disgusting their readers , to induce them to take for granted what they find it impossible to understand . Quintilian lays it down , that a writer's obscurity is usually in proportion to his incapacity ; yet ...
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... assure you , I consider Manchester on the brink of ruin . Her trade is absolutely at the mercy of America . Of cotton , the United States did not manufacture , in 1815 , more than a hundred bales ; they now manufacture at least a fourth ...
... assure you , I consider Manchester on the brink of ruin . Her trade is absolutely at the mercy of America . Of cotton , the United States did not manufacture , in 1815 , more than a hundred bales ; they now manufacture at least a fourth ...
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... fear , I weary you , Madam . : PROTECTION . No , indeed I am all attention , I assure you : but to whom did you apply for information ? Ꭰ ARISTOCRAT . To land stewards and valuers , and experimental 33 PROTECTION. ...
... fear , I weary you , Madam . : PROTECTION . No , indeed I am all attention , I assure you : but to whom did you apply for information ? Ꭰ ARISTOCRAT . To land stewards and valuers , and experimental 33 PROTECTION. ...
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... assure you , without fear of contradiction , that there are at least 600,000 adult males employed in , or dependent upon , the production of wheat in Eng- land alone . PROTECTION . Then , Sir , you mean to tell me that , with cotton ...
... assure you , without fear of contradiction , that there are at least 600,000 adult males employed in , or dependent upon , the production of wheat in Eng- land alone . PROTECTION . Then , Sir , you mean to tell me that , with cotton ...
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66 ARISTOCRAT Adam Smith agricultural agst Albion assure Belle France Bill of 19 Bouncing Bess British farmer British industry capital cent cheap bread cheap foreign corn classes competition Corn Laws cracy cries dear Debt displace Don Whiskerandos Electors of Westminster employed England exchange exploded sophism Exports fair feel fellow fixed duty Foreign Bottoms foreign commodities foreign trade Frau Zollverein free importation friends give heart Jonathan Joyeuse Grisette labour land Letter look Lord John Lord John Russell Lord Stanley low price machinery Madam mean merry England Nation neutral markets never peace Peelites Petite Belge Philanthropy political poor population Porter's Progress Pray produce PROTECTION Protectionist Proudhon prove quarters of wheat reduce regard revenue ruin scarcely selfish sigh Sir James Graham Sir Robert Peel smiling Spitalfields statesmen surplus tail taxed tell throw Tiffin truth undersell wages Wealth Whigs whole
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Page 57 - Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that. You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Page 26 - The capital which sends Scotch manufactures to London, and brings back English corn and manufactures to Edinburgh, necessarily replaces by етегу such operation, two British capitals which had both been employed in the agriculture or manufactures of Great Britain. The capital employed in purchasing foreign goods for home consumption, when this purchase is made with the produce of domestic industry, replaces too, by every such operation, two distinct capitals; but one of them only is employed...
Page 67 - Th' insulting tyrant, prancing o'er the field Strow'd with Rome's citizens, and drench'd in slaughter, His horse's hoofs wet with Patrician blood ! Oh, Portius ! is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man, Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin...
Page 75 - ... Spring shall pour his showers, as oft he wont> And bathe thy breathing tresses, meekest Eve ! While Summer loves to sport Beneath thy lingering light : While sallow Autumn fills thy lap with leaves, Or Winter yelling through the troublous air, Affrights thy shrinking train, And rudely rends thy robes : So long, regardful of thy quiet rule, Shall Fancy, Friendship, Science, smiling Peace, Thy gentlest influence own, And love thy favourite name ! ODE TO PEACE.
Page 26 - The capital employed in purchasing foreign goods for home consumption, when this purchase is made with the produce of domestic industry, replaces, too, by every such operation, two distinct capitals, but one of them only is employed in supporting domestic industry. The capital which sends British goods to Portugal, and brings back Portuguese goods to Great Britain, replaces by every such operation only one British capital. The other is a Portuguese one. Though the returns, therefore, of the foreign...
Page 55 - ... renewed. But even in peace, the habitual dependence on foreign supply is dangerous. We place the subsistence of our own population, not only at the mercy of foreign powers, but also on their being able to spare as much corn as we may want to buy.
Page 23 - His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Page 72 - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
Page 55 - I admit, that if unlimited foreign import, which the war had suspended, were now again allowed, bread might be a little, though a very little cheaper, than it now is, for a year or two. But what would follow ? The small farmer would be ruined ; improvements would...
Page 75 - And the place of the vineyard that thy right hand hath planted: and the branch that thou madest so strong for thyself.