The Scot in EnglandHurst & Blackett, 1935 - 288 pagini |
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Pagina 54
... trade with France dwindled , no new trade took its place , and the whole country lapsed into a condition of almost hopeless poverty . It was one of the most dismal periods in the history of Scotland . A succession of historians have ...
... trade with France dwindled , no new trade took its place , and the whole country lapsed into a condition of almost hopeless poverty . It was one of the most dismal periods in the history of Scotland . A succession of historians have ...
Pagina 174
... trade unions hostile , could not get past the barriers they erected against the free movement of labour , so drifted to Greenwich , and invented a machine for chopping sausage- meat ! It was not the sort of achievement that entitles a ...
... trade unions hostile , could not get past the barriers they erected against the free movement of labour , so drifted to Greenwich , and invented a machine for chopping sausage- meat ! It was not the sort of achievement that entitles a ...
Pagina 221
... Trade . In this office he was in his element , for his inherited knowledge of the principles of business and his uncanny capacity for handling figures soon estab- lished his pre - eminent fitness for ministerial responsi- bilities . He ...
... Trade . In this office he was in his element , for his inherited knowledge of the principles of business and his uncanny capacity for handling figures soon estab- lished his pre - eminent fitness for ministerial responsi- bilities . He ...
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CONTENTS | 12 |
WE GIVE ENGLAND A KING | 29 |
WE GIVE ENGLAND A PRIME MINISTER | 54 |
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