The Annual Register, Volume 139Edmund Burke Rivingtons, 1898 Continuation of the reference work that originated with Robert Dodsley, written and published each year, which records and analyzes the year’s major events, developments and trends in Great Britain and throughout the world. From the 1920s volumes of The Annual Register took the essential shape in which they have continued ever since, opening with the history of Britain, then a section on foreign history covering each country or region in turn. Following these are the chronicle of events, brief retrospectives on the year’s cultural and economic developments, a short selection of documents, and obituaries of eminent persons who died in the year. |
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... Imperial Exchequer . If that claim were just , Ireland had paid ( for instance , in 1893-4 ) 2,750,000l . more than she ought to have done . It was advanced by speakers on the Unionist side that there was another point of view ...
... Imperial Exchequer . If that claim were just , Ireland had paid ( for instance , in 1893-4 ) 2,750,000l . more than she ought to have done . It was advanced by speakers on the Unionist side that there was another point of view ...
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... imperial services . These services cost in 1892-3 about 62,000,000l . Taking that figure , which is less than their present cost , Ireland's contribution to the expenses of the empire was less than one - thirtieth of the whole . The ...
... imperial services . These services cost in 1892-3 about 62,000,000l . Taking that figure , which is less than their present cost , Ireland's contribution to the expenses of the empire was less than one - thirtieth of the whole . The ...
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... imperial taxation , but the local rates in each case must be added to get at the true figures . He had done so , and he found that the revenue drawn from local and imperial sources put together amounted for Belgium to 11. 12s . a head ...
... imperial taxation , but the local rates in each case must be added to get at the true figures . He had done so , and he found that the revenue drawn from local and imperial sources put together amounted for Belgium to 11. 12s . a head ...
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Edmund Burke. finances of autonomous Ireland to be her just contribution to imperial expenditure , which , according to the commissioners ' arithmetic , would clearly be 3,300,000l . Home Rule , in that case , could only spell bankruptcy ...
Edmund Burke. finances of autonomous Ireland to be her just contribution to imperial expenditure , which , according to the commissioners ' arithmetic , would clearly be 3,300,000l . Home Rule , in that case , could only spell bankruptcy ...
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... Imperial Parliament . He himself , on the part of the then Government , proposed an amendment which was assented to by both parties in the House and was passed without a division . This pro- posal , which commanded universal assent ...
... Imperial Parliament . He himself , on the part of the then Government , proposed an amendment which was assented to by both parties in the House and was passed without a division . This pro- posal , which commanded universal assent ...
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