A History of England from the Conclusion of the Great War in 1815, Volume 1Longmans, Green, and Company, 1878 - Great Britain |
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... manufacturer , disabled the farmer to pay his rent , and put even gentlemen of plentiful estates under the greatest difficulties to make a proper provision for their families . ' ' Our parliamentary aids , ' wrote the great Lord ...
... manufacturer , disabled the farmer to pay his rent , and put even gentlemen of plentiful estates under the greatest difficulties to make a proper provision for their families . ' ' Our parliamentary aids , ' wrote the great Lord ...
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... manufacturers , however , paid comparatively little attention to the sufferings of annuitants or day labourers . Rents had never been so high , profits had never been so large , as during the con- tinuance of the war . The manufacturing ...
... manufacturers , however , paid comparatively little attention to the sufferings of annuitants or day labourers . Rents had never been so high , profits had never been so large , as during the con- tinuance of the war . The manufacturing ...
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... manufacturing classes obtained an influence which they had never before known . The landowners were slowly losing the monopoly of power which they had enjoyed for centuries . Traders and manufacturers Trade . were daily obtaining fresh ...
... manufacturing classes obtained an influence which they had never before known . The landowners were slowly losing the monopoly of power which they had enjoyed for centuries . Traders and manufacturers Trade . were daily obtaining fresh ...
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... manufacturers spread over the entire king- dom . Wherever there was a running stream to turn their mill , there was at any rate the possibility of a woollen factory . Norwich , with its contiguous village of Worsted , was the chief seat ...
... manufacturers spread over the entire king- dom . Wherever there was a running stream to turn their mill , there was at any rate the possibility of a woollen factory . Norwich , with its contiguous village of Worsted , was the chief seat ...
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... manufacturers , de- clared , in an address to the House of Lords , that 600,000 packs of wool , worth 6,600,000l . were produced annually in England and Wales , and that 1,500,000 persons were employed in the manufacture . But these ...
... manufacturers , de- clared , in an address to the House of Lords , that 600,000 packs of wool , worth 6,600,000l . were produced annually in England and Wales , and that 1,500,000 persons were employed in the manufacture . But these ...
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