Corn Law
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The Corn Law Repealers had fought for years to bring this about.
From Queen Victoria by E. Gordon Browne
The friends of Government who represent counties will be taunted with the proposal to alter the Corn Law.
From The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 1, 1837-1843 by Reginald Baliol Brett, Viscount Esher
The Corn Law of 1815 was a copy of the Corn Law of 1670—so little had economic science grown in England during all those years.
From Lord John Russell by Stuart J. (Stuart Johnson) Reid
Here his "meteor pen," as the author of the Corn Law Rhymes aptly called it, passes like sunlight over the glowing page.
From The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Robert Turnbull
If you come along with me, we will never rest till we have got rid of the Corn Law.’
From Browning and His Century by Helen Archibald Clarke
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