Corn-law

“The European Pariah,” which will compare favorably with the Corn-law Rhymes.

Uncollected Prose 2006

McCulloch, the great advocate of a change in the Corn-law, that

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 Various

"The Corn-law compels us to pay _three times the value for a loaf of bread_."

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 Various

As the language appears more temperate, and the propositions quite as rational, as those which are ordinarily brought forward in the other Corn-law meetings which still continue to agitate the county, I have no difficulty in complying with their wishes; and if you can afford space for the insertion of the report in your valuable Magazine, you will greatly oblige the Houynhym race, and confer a favour upon, sir, your obedient servant,

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 Various

Looked at in its proper light, the Corn-law League is nothing but _an abominable conspiracy against labour_.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 Various

In England a hundred years ago the Corn-law Rhymer asked the question

From Moscow to Toronto 1938

Still, at moments of deep distress or public wrong-doing, we may hear the echo of the Corn-law Rhymer's anthem:

Essays in Rebellion Henry W. Nevinson 1900

The host -- he was Francis Hastings Kent, Esq. and M. P., the same who afterward became famous in the Corn-law controversy -- here interposed, and

Archibald Malmaison Julian Hawthorne 1890

Works of imagination written with an aim to immediate impression are commonly ephemeral, like Miss Martineau's 'Tales,' and Elliott's 'Corn-law Rhymes;' but the creative faculty of Mrs. Stowe, like that of Cervantes in 'Don Quixote' and of Fielding in 'Joseph Andrews,' overpowered the narrow specialty of her design, and expanded a local and temporary theme with the cosmopolitanism of genius.

The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Stowe, Charles Edward 1889

He has written in that same Newspaper about all the notablest men of his time; Godwin, Corn-law Elliott and I know not all whom: if he publish the Book, I will take care to send it you.

The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II Carlyle, Thomas 1883