The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 7, Part 1John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell Macmillan, 1929 - Great Britain |
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... English nations have taken place almost within living memory . Here are no offshoots of Stuart and early Hanoverian England , but of that Victorian England now just passing from our sight . Living men may well remember the squatter ...
... English nations have taken place almost within living memory . Here are no offshoots of Stuart and early Hanoverian England , but of that Victorian England now just passing from our sight . Living men may well remember the squatter ...
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... English import duties on wool had been reduced from sixpence to the nominal figure of a penny a pound , and a further natural protection was afforded by the decline in the quality of English " downs " wool , the nearest in character to ...
... English import duties on wool had been reduced from sixpence to the nominal figure of a penny a pound , and a further natural protection was afforded by the decline in the quality of English " downs " wool , the nearest in character to ...
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... English law or to imperial statutes expressly made applicable to the colony , and repugnancy on the other hand to the general provisions of English law . A bill allowing slavery , for instance , or a bill contraven- ing the Extradition ...
... English law or to imperial statutes expressly made applicable to the colony , and repugnancy on the other hand to the general provisions of English law . A bill allowing slavery , for instance , or a bill contraven- ing the Extradition ...
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