 | Leigh Hunt - 1852 - 460 pages
...calls the sea the British Common. He is acquainted with commerce in all its parts, and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion...that diligence makes more lasting acquisitions than valor; and that sloth has ruined more nations than the sword. He abounds in several frugal maxims,... | |
 | 1852 - 460 pages
...calls the sea the British Common. He is acquainted with commerce in all its parts, and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion...that diligence makes more lasting acquisitions than valor ; and that sloth has ruined more nations than the sword. He abounds in several frugal maxims,... | |
 | 1852 - 248 pages
...calls the sea the British Common. He is acquainted with commerce in all its parts, and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion...for true power is to be got by arts and industry. Ho will often argue, that if this part of our trade were well cultivated, we should gain from one nation... | |
 | Saxe Bannister - 1852 - 322 pages
...1608 ; Hinton's History of the United States, vol. ii., p. 388. " Sir Andrew Freeport held it to be a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms,...for true power is to be got by arts and industry." — Spectator, No. 2, AD 1710. " In colonizing the interior of South Africa, the Government ought to... | |
 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - 1852 - 216 pages
...In the following instance, there is a very considerable one: "He will often argue, that it this port of our trade were well cultivated, we should gain from one nation; and if another, from another;" that is, "He will often argue, that if this part of our trade were well cultivated, we should gain... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1852 - 272 pages
...following instance there is a very considerable one :, "He will often argue, that if this part of pur trade were well cultivated, we should gain from one nation ; and if another, from, another ;" that is, "He will often argue, that if this part of our trade were well cultivated, we should gain... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1852 - 274 pages
...one nation ; and if another, from another ;" that is, " He will often argue, that if this part »f our trade were well cultivated, we should gain from one nation, and if another part of rtur trade were well cultivated, we should gain from another nation." The following instances,... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 1118 pages
...the outside of Temple Bar. mon. He is acquainted with commerce in all its parts, and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion...lasting acquisitions than valour, and that sloth has ruiued more nations than the sword. He abounds in several frugal maxims, amongst which the greatest... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 596 pages
...calls the sea the British Common. He is acquainted with commerce in all its parts, and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion...for true power is to be got by arts and industry. . Ha will often argue, that if this part of our trade were well cultivated, we should gain from one... | |
 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - 1853 - 204 pages
...cultivated, we should gain from one nation; and if another, from another;" that is, "He will oi'ten argue, that if this part of our trade were well cultivated, we should gain from one nation ; and if another part of our trade were well cultivated, we should gain from another nation." The following instances,... | |
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