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Before many of our readers were born , an Act passed for enclosing 14,000 acres of waste land . Of this 7000 acres were filtered through the digestive organs of commissioners , sur- veyors , clerks , and their satellites .
Before many of our readers were born , an Act passed for enclosing 14,000 acres of waste land . Of this 7000 acres were filtered through the digestive organs of commissioners , sur- veyors , clerks , and their satellites .
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As one effect of the crisis just passed , stocks of everything , except the raw produce of the earth in its first shape , are light . Perhaps , nationally , this is its worst effect . Pecuniary difficulties can only be overcome by ...
As one effect of the crisis just passed , stocks of everything , except the raw produce of the earth in its first shape , are light . Perhaps , nationally , this is its worst effect . Pecuniary difficulties can only be overcome by ...
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Then we come to 1844 , and the last great remedial measurea measure passed neither in haste nor in adversity - matured by counsel - sustained by numbers - as it seemed , a measure for ages -and certainly urged on , more than any other ...
Then we come to 1844 , and the last great remedial measurea measure passed neither in haste nor in adversity - matured by counsel - sustained by numbers - as it seemed , a measure for ages -and certainly urged on , more than any other ...
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 82 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1847 |
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