Surveys, Historic and Economic

Voorkant
Longmans, Green, and Company, 1900 - 476 pagina's
 

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Pagina 391 - ... such abuses, protect and promote competition and secure the rights of producers, laborers, and all who are engaged in industry and commerce.
Pagina 324 - Yet the hatters of England have prevailed to obtain an act in their own favor, restraining that manufacture in America ; in order to oblige the Americans to send their beaver to England to be manufactured, and purchase back the hats, loaded with the charges of a double transportation.
Pagina 322 - ... impertinent badges of slavery imposed upon them, without any sufficient reason, by the groundless jealousy of the merchants and manufacturers of the mother country.
Pagina 330 - Their monopolist happened to be one of the richest men in the world. By his immense capital (primarily employed, not for their benefit, but his own) they were enabled to proceed with their fisheries, their agriculture, their ship-building, (and their trade too within the limits,) in such a manner as got far the start of the slow, languid operations of unassisted nature. This capital was a hot-bed to them. Nothing in the history of mankind is like their progress.
Pagina 321 - In our North American colonies, where uncultivated land is still to be had upon easy terms, no manufactures for distant sale have ever yet been established in any of their towns.
Pagina 229 - FW Maitland. LL.D., Downing Professor of the Laws of England in the University of Cambridge. CANON LAW IN ENGLAND.
Pagina 371 - Streams will not curb their pride The just man not to entomb, Nor lightnings go aside To give his virtues room; Nor is that wind less rough which blows a good man's barge.
Pagina 320 - But no man, who can have a piece of land of his own, sufficient by his labor to subsist his family in plenty, is poor enough to be a manufacturer, and work for a master. Hence, while there is land enough in America for our people, there can never be manufactures to any amount or value.
Pagina 324 - There cannot be a stronger natural right than that of a man's making the best profit he can of the natural produce of his lands, provided he does not thereby hurt the State in general.
Pagina 281 - France, . . . hath much exhausted the Treasure of this Nation, lessened the value of the native Commodities and manufactures thereof, and greatly impoverished the English Artificers and Handycrafts and caused great detriment to this Kingdom in general.

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