Humanity may in this case require that the freedom of trade should be restored only by slow gradations, and with a good deal of reserve and circumspection. Were those high duties and prohibitions taken away all at once, cheaper foreign goods of the same... The Edinburgh Annual Register, for 1808-26 - Page 3741814Full view - About this book
| Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1814 - 600 pages
...kind of article suddenly must be attended with the most injurious consequences ; and that " Humanity, in this case, requires, that the freedom of trade...all at once, many thousands of our people of their •rdinary employment and means of subsistence ."* ' Vol. ii. pagt 10f . - Ibid, pagt 203. Though no... | |
| Walter Scott - Europe - 1814 - 536 pages
...cheaper foreign goods, of tht same kind, might be poured so fast into the home market, as to deprive, ail at once, many thousands of our people of their ordinary...established, during the last five years, by those measure! which distinguished the close of the war. To allow at once a free importation, therefore,... | |
| Walter Scott - Europe - 1814 - 542 pages
...cheaper foreign goods, of the same kind, might be poured so fast into the home market, as to deprive, sis at once, many thousands of our people of their, ordinary...subsistence."— Now, although no high duties and protection! have of late existed by law in favour of the British farmer, restrictions on the importation... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1814 - 602 pages
...at once, cheaper foreign goods, of the same kind, might be poured so fast into the home market, a» to deprive, all at once, many thousands of our people...their ordinary employment and means of subsistence ."* ' Vol. ii. paga 105. * Ibid. pag« 202. 162 Though no high duties and protections have existed... | |
| Mathew Carey - Protectionism - 1823 - 92 pages
...his celebrated work. But he admits that if high duties and prohibitions were all at once taken off, " cheaper foreign goods, of the " same kind, might be...all at once many thousands of our people of their ordi" nary employment and means of subsistence.'1'' This is not a problematical case. It would be some... | |
| Joseph Chitty - Commercial law - 1824 - 1090 pages
...prohibitions taken away all at once, cheaper foreign goods of the same kind might be poured so fast upon the market, as to deprive all at once many thousands of...our people of their ordinary employment and means of subsistence(3). The imposition of taxesupon domestic manufactures seems also to afford a just ground... | |
| Robert Torrens - Corn laws (Great Britain). - 1826 - 452 pages
...importation of the 'same kind of article. " Humanity, in this case," he contends, " requires £hat freedom of trade should be restored only by slow gradations,...their ordinary employment, and means of subsistence." This scarcely needs illustration. England, by very high duties on the importation of foreign wrought... | |
| Robert Torrens - Corn laws (Great Britain) - 1826 - 452 pages
...that freedom of trade should be restored only by slow gradations, and with caution and circumspeqtion. Were these high duties and protections taken away...their ordinary employment, and means of subsistence." This scarcely needs illustration. England, by very * high duties on the importation of foreign wrought... | |
| Robert Torrens - Corn laws (Great Britain). - 1829 - 516 pages
...free importation of the same kind of article. " Humanity, in this case," he contends, " requires that freedom of trade should be restored only by slow gradations,...their ordinary employment, and means of subsistence." This scarcely needs illustration. England, by very high duties on the importation of foreign wrought... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1829 - 1008 pages
...circumspection. Were those high duties and prohibitions taken away all at ouce, cheaper foreign goods might be poured so fast into the home market as to...their ordinary employment and means of subsistence. Changes should be made slowly, gradually, and after a very long •warning." Another remark here presented... | |
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