Great movements, and those who achieved them (1882)
Nicoll, Henry James · New York, Harper & Bros. · leaf 247
he Post-office complaints are loud. But when Penny Postage a Success. 243 one considers the vastness and complexity of the machineryof the Post-office, one is constrained to wonder, not that slio-hterrors should occasionally occur, but that errors should hap-pen so rarely, and should be, generally… … THE REPEAL OF THE CORN-LAWS.RICHARD COBBEN, JOHN BRIGHT, C. P. VILLIERS. In 1776 Adam Smith published his great work, the Wealthof Nations. Few books, if any, have influenced so powerfullythe minds of statesmen, or have done so much to alter the pol-icy of nations, as this treatise of the recluse…
