My Friend H: John Cam Hobhouse, Baron Broughton of Broughton de GyffordJ. Murray, 1948 - 369 pages |
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Page 187
... Bill passed we should lose two millions and a half of productive revenue . But ought we to allow a portion of our fellow - subjects to be rendered miserable for such a consideration ? No. It would be better to give up the cotton trade ...
... Bill passed we should lose two millions and a half of productive revenue . But ought we to allow a portion of our fellow - subjects to be rendered miserable for such a consideration ? No. It would be better to give up the cotton trade ...
Page 215
... Bill was fixed for Monday , the 21st March . The Tories were resolved to fight , and had actually defeated the Govern- ment on the previous Thursday in an irrelevant division on the timber duties . It was an anxious time for Grey and ...
... Bill was fixed for Monday , the 21st March . The Tories were resolved to fight , and had actually defeated the Govern- ment on the previous Thursday in an irrelevant division on the timber duties . It was an anxious time for Grey and ...
Page 221
... Bill , the whole Bill , and nothing but the Bill " —with the odd result that a system which was condemned as unrepresentative ensured its own destruction by giving utterance at last to the wishes of the people . On the 2nd May Burdett ...
... Bill , the whole Bill , and nothing but the Bill " —with the odd result that a system which was condemned as unrepresentative ensured its own destruction by giving utterance at last to the wishes of the people . On the 2nd May Burdett ...
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