The book A History of the Free Trade Struggle in England was written by author Matthew Mark Trumbull Here you can read free online of A History of the Free Trade Struggle in England book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is A History of the Free Trade Struggle in England a good or bad book?
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Whoever bought that, bought, him. Tn 1843, the traveler in the West Riding of Yorkshire, meeting a rustic with a drove of hogs in front of him, looked for the brass collar round his neck, expecting to read upon it the old familiar legend preserved by Scott, — "Gurth, the son of Beowolf, is the born thrall of Cedric of Rotherwood. " The brass collar was not there, but the swineherd was as much a "thrall" as was his ancestor in the days of Wilfred of Ivanhoe. Less than sixty miles from London, an...d within hearing of the bells of Cambridge, the rough-shod clown thrashed his master's grain with a flail, as his forefathers did in the days of Alfred. He knew no more than they; and his dialect was very much like theirs. Of the politics of England, he knew about as much as of the politics of Japan. Al- though great in numbers, the agricultural laborers contributed literally nothing to that public opinion, which is so important an element in the government of England. It was different with the working people in the towns.
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