The Progress of the Nation in Its Various Social and Economic Relations from the Beginning of the Nineteenth CenturyMethuen & Company Limited, 1912 - 735 من الصفحات |
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acres agricultural American amount annual average Bank of England branch Britain British capital Census Census of Production cent classes coal colonial commercial consumption cost cotton debt decline Demy 8vo districts duty E. V. Lucas employed employment England and Wales English estimated Exchequer expenditure exports factories Fcap Females figures flax following table foreign trade Fourth Edition Government growth hemp hosiery House Illustrated imports improvement income-tax increase India industry Ireland iron jute labour Lancashire land linen London machinery Males manufacture material millions nineteenth century number of persons Office output paper period Poor Law population Porter ports progress proportion quantity railway reduced returns revenue Russia schools Scotland Second Edition ships shows silk Sir Robert Giffen statistics supply Third Edition tion Tons total number United Kingdom vessels wages wheat wool woollen workhouse yarn
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الصفحة 354 - I shall do all that in me lies to discourage the woollen manufacture in Ireland, and encourage the linen manufacture there, and to promote the trade of England.
الصفحة 5 - In 1980 the natural growth rate - that is the rate measured by the difference between the number of births and the number of deaths - was 3.6 per 1000, the lowest since records began.
الصفحة 502 - ... restrictive or prohibitory regulations are founded were. followed out consistently, it would not stop short of excluding us from all foreign commerce whatsoever. And the same train of argument, which, with corresponding prohibitions and protective duties, should exclude us from foreign trade, might be brought forward to justify the re-enactment of restrictions upon the interchange of productions (unconnected with public revenue) among the kingdoms composing the union, or among the counties of...
الصفحة 62 - Elizabeth directed to be employed in setting to work children and persons capable of labour, but using no daily trade, and in the necessary relief of the impotent, is applied to purposes opposed to the letter, and still more to the spirit, of that law, and destructive to the morals of the most numerous class and to the welfare of all.
الصفحة 503 - ... favour, it does not follow that we should maintain our restrictions in cases where the desired concessions on their part cannot be obtained ; our restrictions would not be the less prejudicial to our own capital and industry because other Governments persisted in preserving impolitic regulations ; that, upon the whole, the most liberal would prove to be the most politic course on such occasions...
الصفحة 502 - That of the numerous protective and prohibitory duties of our commercial code, it may be proved that, while all operate as a very heavy tax on the community at large, very few are of any ultimate benefit to the classes in whose favour they were originally instituted, and none to the extent of the loss occasioned by them to other classes.
الصفحة 536 - Tables showing the progress of merchant shipping in the United Kingdom and the principal maritime countries.
الصفحة 189 - It has been affirmed, that in Wales the land does not produce half of what it is capable of producing ; and that if all England were as well cultivated as Northumberland and Lincoln, it would produce more than double the quantity that is now obtained.
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