Notes on the Anti-corn Law StruggleWilliams and Norgate, 1884 - 305 psl. |
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2nd Edition advocate Anti-Corn Law League appears Arabs battle Bonaparte called century Channel Tunnel character Charles Charles Pelham Villiers Clarendon cloth Cobden Club Colonel Thompson Corn Laws cottages court Crown 8vo Demosthenes Duke Earl election eloquence England English Englishman evidence farmers France Free Trade Speeches French genius George Villiers German give Government Gowrie Grammar Gurwood heard History honour House of Commons Hull Hume hundred J. S. Mill James Mill John King Kinglake land letter Logan London Lord Louis Louis Bonaparte Macaulay means murder Napoleon never Notes obtained opinion orator Parliament parliamentary peace peerage Perronet Thompson persons Political Economy Club Poor Law possession Prince question quoted rent Repeal Restalrig Robert says Scotland Scottish village shillings Sprot strange Stuart tenant things Thomas Perronet Thompson thousand truth Villiers's Free Trade vote wages words writer
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