 In 1841 the free-trade party would have agreed to a duty of 8s. a quarter on wheat, and after a lapse of years this duty might have been further reduced, and ultimately abolished. But the imposition of any duty at present, without a provision for its...  The Quarterly Review - Page 1281875Full view - About this book
 | Justin McCarthy - Great Britain - 1880 - 572 pages
...abolished. But the imposition of any duty at present, without a provision for its extinction within a short period, would but prolong a contest already...sufficiently fruitful of animosity and discontent." Lord John Russell then invited a general understanding, to put an end to a system " which has been... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - Great Britain - 1881 - 506 pages
...abolished. But the imposition of any duty at present, without a provision for its extinction within a short period, would but prolong a contest already...sufficiently fruitful of animosity and discontent. . . . The Government appear to be waiting for some excuse to give up the present Corn Laws. Let the people, by... | |
 | Lewis Apjohn - Corn laws (Great Britain) - 1881 - 326 pages
...abolished. But the imposition of any duty at present, without a provision for its extinction within a short period, would but prolong a contest already...sufficiently fruitful of animosity and discontent. . . . Let us then unite to put an end to a system which has been proved to be the blight of commerce,... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - Civilization, Anglo-Saxon - 1882 - 514 pages
...abolished. But the imposition of any duty at present, without a provision for its extinction within a short period, would but prolong a contest already...sufficiently fruitful of animosity and discontent. . . . The government appear to be waiting for some excuse to give up the present Corn-laws. Let the people, by... | |
 | James Taylor - 1882 - 340 pages
...duty ; and that the imposition of any duty at present, without a provision for its extinction within a short period, would but prolong a contest already...sufficiently fruitful of animosity and discontent. ' Let us then,' he proceeded to say, ' unite to put an end to a system which has been found to be the... | |
 | Thomas Archer - Great Britain - 1883 - 736 pages
...abolished. But the imposition of any duty at present, without a provision for its extinction within a short period, would but prolong a contest already sufficiently fruitful of animosity aud discontent. . . . Let us then unite to put an end to a system which has been proved to be the blight... | |
 | Justin McCarthy - Great Britain - 1884 - 656 pages
...abolished. But the. imposition of any duty at present, without a provision for its extinction within a short period, would but prolong a contest already...sufficiently fruitful of animosity and discontent." Lord John Russell then invited a general understanding, to put an end to a system " which has been... | |
 | William Nassau Molesworth - Great Britain - 1887 - 622 pages
...passages : — " The imposition of any duty at present, without a provision for its extinction within a short period, would but prolong a contest already sufficiently fruitful of animosity aad discontent. The struggle to make bread scar<je and dear, when it is clear that part at least of... | |
 | Sir Spencer Walpole - Great Britain - 1889 - 518 pages
...abolished. Rut the imposition of any duty at present, without a provision for its extinction within a short period, would but prolong a contest already...sufficiently fruitful of animosity and discontent. The struggle to make bread scarce and dear, when it is clear that part, at least, of the additional price... | |
 | Henry Lorenzo Jephson - Great Britain - 1891 - 520 pages
...fixed duty. . . . The imposition of any duty at present, without a provision for its extinction within a short period, would but prolong a contest already...sufficiently fruitful of animosity and discontent. . . . Let us then unite to put an end to a system which has been proved to be the blight of commerce,... | |
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