 | John Hill Burton - 1880 - 376 pagina’s
...separated. Your trade is the mother and nurse of your seamen, your seamen are the life of your fleet, and your fleet is the security and protection of your...together are the wealth, strength, security, and glory of Britain." This might have been accepted in later times, when oratory became fashionable, as a good... | |
 | Peter Paret, Gordon A. Craig, Felix Gilbert - 1986 - 964 pagina’s
...separated: your trade is the mother and nurse of your seamen: your seamen are the life of your fleet: and your fleet is the security and protection of your...together are the wealth, strength, security and glory of Britain."14 For these reasons the real test of Adam Smith's view on mercantilism and power politics... | |
 | Barbara L. Solow - 1991 - 372 pagina’s
...separated: your trade is the mother and nurse of your seamen; your seamen are the life of your fleet, and your fleet is the security and protection of your...together are the wealth, strength, security and glory of Britain." Foreign markets had, moreover, been seized, created, and protected by relatively high levels... | |
 | Linda Colley - 2005 - 452 pagina’s
...separated; your trade is the mother and nurse of your seamen; your seamen are the life of your fleet, and your fleet is the security and protection of your...together are the wealth, strength, security and glory of Britain. 27 Haversham's stress on the intimate connexions between trade on the one hand, and the imperatives... | |
 | John A. Hall - 1994 - 1139 pagina’s
...separated; your trade is the mother and nurse of your seamen; your seamen are the life of your fleet, and your fleet is the security and protection of your...together are the wealth, strength, security and glory of Britain."38 "By trade and commerce we grow a rich and powerful nation, and by their decay we are growing... | |
 | John A. Hall - 1994 - 584 pagina’s
...the mother and nurse of your seamen; your seamen are the life of your fleet, and your fleet is llie security and protection of your trade, and both together are the wealth, strength, security and glory of Britain."38 "By trade and commerce we grow a rich and powerful nation, and by their decay we are growing... | |
 | Alan Taylor - 2002 - 548 pagina’s
...separated; your trade is the mother and nurse of your seamen; your seamen are the life of your fleet, and your fleet is the security and protection of your...together are the wealth, strength, security and glory of Britain. This did not mean that merchants governed the empire. Excluded by definition from the House... | |
 | Clive Wilkinson - 2004 - 262 pagina’s
...the National Archive) Par!. Hist. Parliamentary History of Great Britain The myth of a paper fleet your fleet is the security and protection of your...together are the wealth, strength, security and glory of Britain. Lord Ha versham ( 1707)' Britain started and ended the eighteenth century celebrating its... | |
 | J. R. Hill - 2005 - 114 pagina’s
...separated; your trade is the mother and nurse of your seamen; your seamen are the life of your fleet; and your fleet is the security and protection of your...together are the wealth, strength, security and glory of Britain.' A contemporary view of British sea power nearing its height: Lord Haversham (¡647-1 710)... | |
 | N. A. M. Rodger - 2005 - 1022 pagina’s
...judgement that 'Your trade is the mother and nurse of your seamen; your seamen are the life of your fleet; and your fleet is the security and protection of your...together are the wealth, strength, security and glory of Britain.'66 TWELVE Strife and Envy Administration 1689-1714 The overthrow of James II brought an abrupt... | |
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Your fleet, and your trade, have so near a relation, and such mutual influence upon each other, they cannot well be separated; your trade is the mother and nurse of your seamen; your seamen are the life of your fleet, and your fleet is the security and... 