... renewed. But even in peace, the habitual dependence on foreign supply is dangerous. We place the subsistence of our own population, not only at the mercy of foreign powers, but also on their being able to spare as much corn as we may want to buy. A Letter to the Electors of Westminster - Página 55por John Lettsom Elliot - 1850 - 100 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1827 - 700 páginas
...proceed to read the following passages : " But even in peace the habitual dependence on foreign supply is dangerous. We place the subsistence of our own...powers, but also on their being able to spare as much cora as we may want to buy. Suppose, as it frequently happens, the harvest in the same year to be a... | |
| United States. Congress - 1830 - 660 páginas
...frequently experienced, but in our maintaining ourselves habitually independent of foreign supply. Let the bread we eat be the produce of corn grown among ourselves, and I, for one, care not how cheap it is; the cheaper the better; it is cheap now." [It was then at seventy-two... | |
| Robert Montgomery Martin - 1833 - 336 páginas
...calamities, whenever hostilities may be renewed. But even in peace, the habitual dependence on foreign supply is dangerous. We place the subsistence of our own...able to spare as much corn as we may want to buy. Suppose, as it frequently happens, the harvest in the same year to be a short one, not only in this... | |
| William Day (assistant poor law commissioner.) - 1833 - 120 páginas
...calamities, whenever hostilities may be renewed. But even in peace, the habitual dependence on foreign supply is dangerous. We place the subsistence of our own...able to spare as much corn as we may want to buy. Suppose, as it frequently happens, the harvest in the same year to be a short one, not only in this... | |
| 1839 - 544 páginas
...calamities, whenever hostilities may be renewed. But even in peace the habitual dependence on foreign supply is dangerous. We place the subsistence of our own...population not only at the mercy of foreign powers, hut also on their being able to spare as much corn as we may want to buy. Suppose, as it frequently... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1843 - 850 páginas
...whenever hostilities may be renewed. Uul, fvni in peace, the habitual dependence on foreign supply is dangerous. We place the subsistence of our own...not only at the mercy of foreign powers, but also on (heir bring able to spare as much corn as we may want to buy. Suppose, as it frequently happens, the... | |
| George Crosby - 1849 - 564 páginas
...calamities whenever hostilities maybe renewed. But even in peace the habitual dependence on foreign supply is dangerous. We place the subsistence of our own...able to spare as much corn as we may want to buy. Suppose, as it frequently happens, the harvest in the same year to be a short one, - not onlv in this... | |
| National Association for the Protection of Industry and Capital (Great Britain) - 1850 - 234 páginas
...placing ourselves in a state of habitual and increasing dependence on fbrelgni supply." — 1814. "^ Let the bread we "eat be the produce of corn grown among ourselves, and for one I care not how cheap ii is— the cheaper the better. It is chesjS'now', and I rejoice at it, because it is- altogether... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1851 - 112 páginas
...never modified, never changed this doctrine, "that in peace the habitual dependence on foreign supply is dangerous. We place the subsistence of our own...foreign powers, but also on their being able to spare us as much corn as we may want to buy." Thus said Mr. Huskisson in 1815; and in 1827, he said, " I... | |
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