Annual Register, Volume 93Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1852 - History |
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... land , remarking , how- ever , that it was most undeniable that the labouring population in the agricultural districts had never been better off than they were at that moment , and expressing his conviction that the energy and in ...
... land , remarking , how- ever , that it was most undeniable that the labouring population in the agricultural districts had never been better off than they were at that moment , and expressing his conviction that the energy and in ...
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... land for centuries . With regard to the recent step taken by the head of the Roman Catholic Church , it was impossible to deny that an insolent aggression had been made on the supremacy of the English Crown . He did not desire to ...
... land for centuries . With regard to the recent step taken by the head of the Roman Catholic Church , it was impossible to deny that an insolent aggression had been made on the supremacy of the English Crown . He did not desire to ...
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... he did not till lately know the history . It was stated that in the Lord Chamberlain's department the Roman Catholic Primate of Ireland and the Ro- man Catholic Archbishop of Ire- land had entrée , as England . ] [ 9 HISTORY .
... he did not till lately know the history . It was stated that in the Lord Chamberlain's department the Roman Catholic Primate of Ireland and the Ro- man Catholic Archbishop of Ire- land had entrée , as England . ] [ 9 HISTORY .
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... land , lamented in Her Majesty's Speech , renders it the duty of the Government to introduce , without delay , measures for their effectual relief . " Mr. Disraeli began by observing that the fact , admitted in the Speech from the ...
... land , lamented in Her Majesty's Speech , renders it the duty of the Government to introduce , without delay , measures for their effectual relief . " Mr. Disraeli began by observing that the fact , admitted in the Speech from the ...
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... land enjoyed exemptions . These , however , Mr. Disraeli en- deavoured to show were compara- tively small or illusory , and he opposed to these exemptions the land tax . It was only by that powerful instrument , the property and income ...
... land enjoyed exemptions . These , however , Mr. Disraeli en- deavoured to show were compara- tively small or illusory , and he opposed to these exemptions the land tax . It was only by that powerful instrument , the property and income ...
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