Geschiedenis der tariefshervorming in Engeland

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P.N. Van Kampen, 1847 - 303 pages

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Page 49 - This fortress, built by nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war ; This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands ; This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England...
Page 32 - AN ACT DECLARING THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF THE SUBJECT, AND SETTLING THE SUCCESSION OF THE CROWN.
Page 122 - It will be clear to all who have been at the trouble to attend to the very able document which I have just read, that it embraces all the great principles of commercial policy, upon which parliament has since legislated. Why do I lay so much stress upon this petition ? For the purpose of showing, first, that if the government have pursued this course, we have done so, not on the recommendations of visionaries and theorists, but of practical men of business : secondly, that the merchants of the city...
Page 122 - ... first, that if the Government have pursued this course, we have done so, not on the recommendations of visionaries and theorists, but of practical men of business : secondly, that the merchants of the city of London — the great mart of the commerce and wealth of the country — felt convinced, in 1820, that the distress of that period was greatly aggravated by the narrow and shortsighted system of restrictions and prohibitions which then prevailed ; and that, in their judgment, the alleviation,...
Page 134 - An Act for the encouragement of Navigation and Commerce, by regulating the Importation of Goods and Merchandise, so far as relates to the Countries or Places from whence, and the ships in which, such Importation shall be made.
Page 230 - I think it desirable that we should act on the principle of treating Canada as if it were an integral part of the empire.
Page 282 - The name which ought to be, and will be associated with the success of those measures, is the name of one...
Page 122 - ... It will be clear to all who have been at the trouble to attend to the very able document which I have just read, that it : embraces all the great principles of commercial policy, upon which Parliament has since legislated. Why do I lay so much stress upon this petition ? For the purpose of showing, first, that if the Government have pursued this course, we have done so, not on the recommendations of visionaries and theorists, but of practical men of business...
Page 199 - for the Amendment and better Administration of the Laws relative to the Poor in England and Wales.
Page 249 - Kingdom in two years preceding and in two years following the establishment of the new tariff (5 & 6 Viet.

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