Speeches and Letters on American AffairsJ.M. Dent & Sons, 1961 - 295 pagina's |
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Pagina 87
... commerce with our colonies fiction lags after truth , invention is unfruitful , and imagination cold and barren . So far , Sir , as to the importance of the object in view of its commerce , as concerned in the exports from England . If ...
... commerce with our colonies fiction lags after truth , invention is unfruitful , and imagination cold and barren . So far , Sir , as to the importance of the object in view of its commerce , as concerned in the exports from England . If ...
Pagina 276
... commerce . ” 2 This is true . But it is with our ships that the seas are covered ; and their rivers float with British commerce . The American merchants are our factors ; all in reality , most even in name . The Americans trade ...
... commerce . ” 2 This is true . But it is with our ships that the seas are covered ; and their rivers float with British commerce . The American merchants are our factors ; all in reality , most even in name . The Americans trade ...
Pagina 279
... commerce in a manner created ; it stands upon principles of its own ; principles hardly worth endangering for any little consideration of extorted revenue . The reader sees , that I do not enter so fully into this matter as obviously I ...
... commerce in a manner created ; it stands upon principles of its own ; principles hardly worth endangering for any little consideration of extorted revenue . The reader sees , that I do not enter so fully into this matter as obviously I ...
Inhoudsopgave
INTRODUCTION by Canon Peter McKevitt | 1 |
SPEECH AT HIS ARRIVAL AT BRISTOL BEFORE | 64 |
ON CONCILIATION WITH THE COLONIES | 76 |
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