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  • He was interim editor of the 'Scotsman' at an early period of the Corn-Law agitation, and during his editorship committed the journal to Anti-Corn-Law principles.

    The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton

  • Peel in the Corn-Law debate of 22d January 1846, be became the leader of the Tory party.

    Queen Victoria Story of Her Life and Reign, 1819-1901 Anonymous

  • In some of the most recent agricultural meetings, speeches have been made, from which many journalists have inferred the existence of rapidly-increasing convictions on the part of the agricultural interest, that a sweeping alteration in the Corn-Law is inevitable and immediate.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 Various

  • The Doves Bindery, as all good men know, is managed by Mr. Cobden-Sanderson, who married one of the two daughters of Richard Cobden of Corn-Law fame.

    Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916

  • From the hour of his onslaught on Sir Robert Peel in the Corn-Law debate of 22d January 1846, be became the leader of the Tory party.

    Queen Victoria Anonymous 1901

  • The Doves Bindery, as all good men know, is managed by Mr. Cobden-Sanderson, who married one of the two daughters of Richard Cobden of Corn-Law fame.

    Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors Elbert Hubbard 1885

  • Richter that Mr. Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus" gave his readers; both matter and manner in that remarkable work bearing far more resemblance to the great German Incomprehensible than to any thing in the English language, certainly not excepting Mr. Carlyle's own masterly articles in the _Edinburgh Review_ on Burns, Elliot the Corn-Law Rhymer, etc.

    Records of a Girlhood Fanny Kemble 1851

  • In 1846, in the crisis of the Corn-Law struggle, and when it was a question whether the House of Lords should resist or yield, he wrote a very curious letter to the late Lord Derby: --

    The English Constitution Walter Bagehot 1851

  • The two poets who have done them most harm, in teaching the evil trick of cursing and swearing, are Shelley and the Corn-Law

    Literary and General Lectures and Essays Charles Kingsley 1847

  • His more earnest poems are somewhat tainted with that cardinal fault of his school, of which he steered so clear in prose -- fine words; yet he never, like the Corn-Law Rhymer, falls a cursing.

    Literary and General Lectures and Essays Charles Kingsley 1847

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