Annual Register, Volume 43Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1802 - History |
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... perfons conc 、 rned in it , in the most vigorous exem- plary , and impreffive manner , which the power military as ... perfon poffeffed of corn , or any other article of provision , is rendered no lefs infecure than his property ; and ...
... perfons conc 、 rned in it , in the most vigorous exem- plary , and impreffive manner , which the power military as ... perfon poffeffed of corn , or any other article of provision , is rendered no lefs infecure than his property ; and ...
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... perfon or perfons from felling any bread which fhould not have been baked a certain time , namely , four- and - twenty hours . " 66 All thefe bills having paffed through the ufual ftages in both houfes , were , in the courfe of De ...
... perfon or perfons from felling any bread which fhould not have been baked a certain time , namely , four- and - twenty hours . " 66 All thefe bills having paffed through the ufual ftages in both houfes , were , in the courfe of De ...
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... perfons , who would be likely now to receive it , if they refided in their own parishes ; and alfo that , to the few whom they relieved , on account of their being entirely out of work , they gave only about one - fifth or one- fixth ...
... perfons , who would be likely now to receive it , if they refided in their own parishes ; and alfo that , to the few whom they relieved , on account of their being entirely out of work , they gave only about one - fifth or one- fixth ...
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... perfons employed in agri- culture , as labourers or farmers : but the name of corn - factor was not to be met with . He did not deny the utility of middle - men to tranfport grain from one part of the Kingdom to the other , in fach pro ...
... perfons employed in agri- culture , as labourers or farmers : but the name of corn - factor was not to be met with . He did not deny the utility of middle - men to tranfport grain from one part of the Kingdom to the other , in fach pro ...
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... perfons of fkill and learning have eftimated the people of England to have amounted , at the revolution , to about 7,000,000 . Some defpond- ing men have afferted , that the po- pulation afterwards decreafed by a million million and a ...
... perfons of fkill and learning have eftimated the people of England to have amounted , at the revolution , to about 7,000,000 . Some defpond- ing men have afferted , that the po- pulation afterwards decreafed by a million million and a ...
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