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Correspondence with Foreign Powers , relating to the Slave - Trade . 1825 , 1826. Class B. Presented to both Houses of Parliament . 3.
Correspondence with Foreign Powers , relating to the Slave - Trade . 1825 , 1826. Class B. Presented to both Houses of Parliament . 3.
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Correspondence with Foreign Powers , relating to the Slave - Trade . 1825 , 1826. Class B. Presented to both Houses of Parliament . 3.
Correspondence with Foreign Powers , relating to the Slave - Trade . 1825 , 1826. Class B. Presented to both Houses of Parliament . 3.
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Some few of them , indeed , begin to perceive that , notwithstanding the disgrace attached to trade and manufactures , industry is an essential means of ...
Some few of them , indeed , begin to perceive that , notwithstanding the disgrace attached to trade and manufactures , industry is an essential means of ...
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After briefly considering the vicissitudes of trade and manufactures in Venice , Spain , Portugal , Holland , France and England , he concludes :1.
After briefly considering the vicissitudes of trade and manufactures in Venice , Spain , Portugal , Holland , France and England , he concludes :1.
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The ostentațious reign of Henry VIII . gave a further impulse to the woollen trade ; even in 1512 ...
The ostentațious reign of Henry VIII . gave a further impulse to the woollen trade ; even in 1512 ...
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 34 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1826 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Jun 2005 |
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