9781458905307

The Quarterly Review

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ISBN13: 9781458905307

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Art. VII.?1. The Anfi-Corn-Law Circular. J. Gadsby, Manchester. 1839?1841. 2. TheAnti-lhead-Tax Circular. Gadsby, Manchester. 1841. 1842. 3. The Anti-Bread Tax Almanack. Gadsby, Manchester. 1811, 1842. 4. Daily Bread; or, Taxation without Representation resisted; being a Plan for the Abolition of the Bread- Tux?' Give Ms Ih'is day our daily bread.' By One of the Millions, pp. o'-J. 1841. 5. Union, tJie Patriot's Watchword on the Present Crisis. 13y the Rev. Henry Edwards, Scc. pp. 24. Manchester and London. 1842. G. The Lawcraft of Landcraft; with Legislative Illustrations. By James Acland, one of the Lecturers of the National Anti- Corn-Law League. 7. Address to the Middle and Working Classes engaged in Trade and Manufactures throughout the Empire, on the Necessity of Union at the Present Crisis. By Richard Gardner, Esq., B'.A. Manchester. 1842. V7E are aware that the publications, the names of which we li.ivo prefixed to this article, scarcely deserve to be considered as literature?they are but a few specimens of the ephemeral spawn of incendiary tracts, advertisements, and placards, with which the Anti-Corn-Law Associations inundate the country. But, affecting to appeal to reason, and having no doubt considerable influence in some quarters, they bring themselves within our jurisdiction; and we on our part are not sorry to accept the occasion they present of bringing?as far as in us lies?to the tribunal of public opinion the foulest, the most selfish, and 'altogether perhaps the most dangerous combination of recent times. We hardly can except the great Jacobin league, generated by the French revolution; because Jacobinism was a ' bold-faced villain, ' enthusiastic and indiscreet, who avowed his real designs, and was therefore more easily dealt with than ...

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9781458905307

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1458905306

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1.42 Pounds

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9.00 x 6.00 x 0.98 In

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442 pages

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2009-08-01



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