The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 149A. Constable, 1879 |
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... Trade and the railway mania to increase employment the whole period had been one of extreme depression and distress , which naturally showed itself in politi- cal virulence and discontent . The expenses of Government had been reduced to ...
... Trade and the railway mania to increase employment the whole period had been one of extreme depression and distress , which naturally showed itself in politi- cal virulence and discontent . The expenses of Government had been reduced to ...
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... trade , and of the wide - spread and mysterious distress , which had prevailed in this and most of the other countries of Europe during the first half of the present century . * Instead of in- * Mr. Newmarch , in a paper read before the ...
... trade , and of the wide - spread and mysterious distress , which had prevailed in this and most of the other countries of Europe during the first half of the present century . * Instead of in- * Mr. Newmarch , in a paper read before the ...
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... trade - balances , and without which international trade cannot be carried on . Howsoever differing in the character or complexion of their anticipations , all parties alike were agreed that a great fall in the value of money was at ...
... trade - balances , and without which international trade cannot be carried on . Howsoever differing in the character or complexion of their anticipations , all parties alike were agreed that a great fall in the value of money was at ...
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... trade had not then organised an adequate system of sup- plies for their maintenance in the new countries ; moreover , a large portion of the mining population worked far away from towns or depots of any kind ; so that a dollar went but ...
... trade had not then organised an adequate system of sup- plies for their maintenance in the new countries ; moreover , a large portion of the mining population worked far away from towns or depots of any kind ; so that a dollar went but ...
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... trade , the miners being paid for their labour in weekly wages . When new gold - mines are discovered , which appears to be a highly probable event , of course the old spirit of adventure and gambling will again come into play , and it ...
... trade , the miners being paid for their labour in weekly wages . When new gold - mines are discovered , which appears to be a highly probable event , of course the old spirit of adventure and gambling will again come into play , and it ...
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Página 157 - Italian Friar and second Machiavel, his Advice to the King ' of Spain for attaining the universal Monarchy of the World.
Página 530 - The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be ; and that which is done is that which shall be done : and there is no new thing under the sun.
Página 472 - I should like to have been able to see their faces, and to hear their observations to each other, at the time. This occurrence at home will, one would hope, teach the loyal a little caution in speaking of the means which Napoleon employs (or rather, which they say he employs) in order to get together and to discipline his conscripts.
Página 534 - Cox (GV)— RECOLLECTIONS OF OXFORD. By G. V. Cox, MA, New College, late Esquire Bedel and Coroner in the University of Oxford. Cheaper Edition. Crown 8vo.
Página 190 - I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.
Página 1 - Mellon, in the report of the Secretary of the Treasury for the fiscal year ended June 30...
Página 460 - Tub,' which I carried about with me wherever I went ; and when I, at about twenty years old, lost it in a box that fell overboard in the Bay of Fundy, in North America, the loss gave me greater pain than I have ever felt at losing thousands of pounds.
Página 504 - Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
Página 474 - Cobbett was at the height of his political reputation ; but of politics we heard little, and should, I think, have heard nothing, but for an occasional red-hot patriot, who would introduce the subject, which our host would fain put aside, and got rid of as speedily as possible.
Página 106 - THE EXPEDITION FOR THE SURVEY OF THE RIVERS EUPHRATES and TIGRIS, carried on by order of the British Government, in the Years 1835, 1836, and 1837.