Recollections of Richard Cobden Mp And the Anti Corn Law League
Recollections of Richard Cobden Mp And the Anti Corn Law League
Henry Ashworth
The book Recollections of Richard Cobden Mp And the Anti Corn Law League was written by author Henry Ashworth Here you can read free online of Recollections of Richard Cobden Mp And the Anti Corn Law League book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Recollections of Richard Cobden Mp And the Anti Corn Law League a good or bad book?
What reading level is Recollections of Richard Cobden Mp And the Anti Corn Law League book?
To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
(Cheers. ) They beheved that Free Trade would bless the world, and would especially bless this country. As England was the greatest trading nation in the world, so Free Trade would benefit her most. She was the most commercial country, because she possessed the greatest powers of production and consump- tion, and by production and consumption, which rendered ex- change a necessity, the trade of the world was carried on. (Cheers. ) They wanted to have the question settled for the world, as well ...as for England. They were tired of what were called the natural divisions of empires. They wanted not that the Channel should separate this country from France — they hoped and wished that Frenchmen and Englishmen should no longer consider each other as naturally hostile nations. (Loud cheers. ) It was common to speak of rivers, and mountains, and seas, as the natural divisions of countries, separating one 1 68 RECOLLECTIONS OF COBDEN AND THE LEAGUE. nation from another, from all time and for all time ; but there was no barrier which nature had reared which was a thousandth part so detrimental to the interests of mankind, or so much calculated to embitter their feelings and promote hostilities, as were those miserable and unnatural barriers which legal restric- tions on trade had imposed, and which were upheld by lines of custom-houses between nation and nation.
You can download books for free in various formats, such as epub, pdf, azw, mobi, txt and others on book networks site. Additionally, the entire text is available for online reading through our e-reader. Our site is not responsible for the performance of third-party products (sites).
User Reviews: