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Mr. Huskisson made an able speech in support of the proposal, showing that the inflation produced by the small note paper currency had greatly contributed to cause and aggravate the panic ( 'Huskisson's Speeches,' vol.ii. p. 444).
The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Volume 1 (of 3) Charles Greville 1829
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THE South Coast is stealing Palm Beach's title as a summer celebrity mecca, with laidback locales such as Huskisson, Vincentia and Hyams Beach emerging as hotspots for star spotting.
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I became fascinated by Fanny Kemble (1809-1893) after reading her account of the death of William Huskisson, and even more so her memoir of life on a Georgian plantation in 1838-39, but rather bounced off the first biography of her that I read.
May Books 1) The Patriot Witch, by Charles Coleman Finlay nwhyte 2009
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Red placebos are more effective pain relievers than white, blue or green placebos Huskisson, 1974; Nagao et al., 1968.
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Huskisson -- have many a time poured forth the floods of their eloquence, stirring up the heart's-blood of the thousands assembled in the street to hear them, making pulses beat quicker, and exciting passions to fever-heat.
Recollections of Old Liverpool A Nonagenarian
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Huskisson-street is named after the statesman at one time member for Liverpool.
Recollections of Old Liverpool A Nonagenarian
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It may be that he originated little himself: that Romilly was the pioneer in the humanizing of law, that Horner taught him the doctrines of sound finance, that Huskisson led the way in freeing trade from the shackles with which it had been bound.
Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore
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Huskisson, rightly foreseeing British prosperity as dependent upon her manufactures and upon the carrying trade, stated in
Great Britain and the American Civil War Ephraim Douglass Adams
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Peel, though he had been brought up by his father a strong Protectionist and Tory, had been largely influenced by Huskisson, the most remarkable President of the Board of Trade that this country has ever seen, and had shown on many occasions that he grasped the principle of Free Trade as well as any statesman of the day.
Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore
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Huskisson considered that 'the right, even if well founded, was one the exercise of which was intolerable, but that this was not the time to take up the subject.'
Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII John Austin Stevens
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