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Page 47
... wages paid last year . In most cases the farmers have been obliged to pay the advance , otherwise that on the day previous ( the 16th ) they had infor- mation of a large party of armed men being at the state , that it is the unanimous ...
... wages paid last year . In most cases the farmers have been obliged to pay the advance , otherwise that on the day previous ( the 16th ) they had infor- mation of a large party of armed men being at the state , that it is the unanimous ...
Page 57
... wages varies directly with the price of food - it is because I cannot persuade myself that with respect to the intelligent farmers , it can be considered that this pro- tection is necessary to agricultural prosper- ity - it is because I ...
... wages varies directly with the price of food - it is because I cannot persuade myself that with respect to the intelligent farmers , it can be considered that this pro- tection is necessary to agricultural prosper- ity - it is because I ...
Page 89
... wages , and the further degradation of the labourer . I will not , however , detain the House longer now . Whatever our numbers or intelli- gence may be , I am sure that at least we shall not shrink from fighting the great battle to ...
... wages , and the further degradation of the labourer . I will not , however , detain the House longer now . Whatever our numbers or intelli- gence may be , I am sure that at least we shall not shrink from fighting the great battle to ...
Page 225
... wages of his labourers , but , what was a more serious evil , reducing their number , and this par- ticularly in the winter months . There was an old saying , that " it is wise to let well alone ; " and he asked whether the condition of ...
... wages of his labourers , but , what was a more serious evil , reducing their number , and this par- ticularly in the winter months . There was an old saying , that " it is wise to let well alone ; " and he asked whether the condition of ...
Page 235
... wages were as low as prices ; and the farmer paid as little as pos- sible every week to the labourers - the re- in the amount of the wages he paid , than 235 { COMMONS } Corn Importation Bill . 236 Corn Importation Bill .
... wages were as low as prices ; and the farmer paid as little as pos- sible every week to the labourers - the re- in the amount of the wages he paid , than 235 { COMMONS } Corn Importation Bill . 236 Corn Importation Bill .
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Page 561 - ... it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept under that character...
Page 561 - There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon, real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
Page 263 - Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key, As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds Had been incorporate. So we grew together Like to a double cherry, seeming parted But yet an union in partition, Two lovely berries moulded on one stem, So with two seeming bodies but one heart, Two of the first, like coats in heraldry, Due but to one, and crowned with one crest.
Page 409 - WOODMAN, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough; In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now.
Page 581 - An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject...
Page 561 - Congress have repeatedly, and not without success, directed their attention to the encouragement of manufactures. The object is of too much consequence not to insure a continuance of their efforts in every way which shall appear eligible.
Page 831 - But by your father's worth if yours you rate, Count me those only who were good and great. Go! if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood, Go! and pretend your family is young! Nor own your fathers hav.e been fools so long. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards.
Page 675 - Well, what do you think of your chief's plan?" Not knowing exactly what to say, but taking up a phrase which has been much used in the House, I observed, "Well, I suppose it is a 'great and comprehensive
Page 563 - He, therefore, who is now against domestic manufacture, must be for reducing us either to dependence on that foreign nation, or to be clothed in skins, and to live like wild beasts in dens and caverns. I am not one of these; experience has taught me that manufactures are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort...
Page 685 - I may have been wrong, but my impression was, first, that my duty towards a country threatened with famine required that that which had been the ordinary remedy under all similar circumstances should be resorted to — namely, that there should be free access to the food of man from whatever quarter it might come. I was prepared to give the best proof which public men generally can give of the sincerity of their opinions, by tendering my resignation of office, and devolving upon others the duty of...