The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 1John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1929 - Commonwealth countries |
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Crime , too , springs from the craze for turning tillage into pasturage ; for wool pays better than corn , wherefore sheep " devour whole fields , houses and cities " , and the peasants thus expelled must beg or steal and be hanged .
Crime , too , springs from the craze for turning tillage into pasturage ; for wool pays better than corn , wherefore sheep " devour whole fields , houses and cities " , and the peasants thus expelled must beg or steal and be hanged .
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At best , the whole system of appointment seems to have been somewhat casual , though a tendency can be discovered , due partly to the policy of consolidation and partly to the desire for ...
At best , the whole system of appointment seems to have been somewhat casual , though a tendency can be discovered , due partly to the policy of consolidation and partly to the desire for ...
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Only occa- sionally did it make use of the standing committee , and only on rare occasions did it resolve itself into a committee of the whole House , a device which it used rather as a measure of secrecy against the governor than as a ...
Only occa- sionally did it make use of the standing committee , and only on rare occasions did it resolve itself into a committee of the whole House , a device which it used rather as a measure of secrecy against the governor than as a ...
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| Title | The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 1 The Cambridge History of the British Empire, John Holland Rose |
| Editors | John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell |
| Publisher | The University Press, 1929 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 Nov 2006 |
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