 | 1853 - 756 pages
...with commerce in all its parts, and viD tell v oi i that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extena dominion by arms : for true power is to be got by arts and industry. He will often argue, that tf this part of our trade were well cultivated, we should gain from one nation ; and if another, from... | |
 | 1854 - 608 pages
...mercantile projectors — the "Sir Andrew Freeport" of the "Spectator" — "that it is a stupid and a erati@+K! industry,"fa doctrine still too hard for the warmest professing Christian nations on earth ; and although... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 618 pages
...in all its parts, and will tell you it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arm!; ; for true power is to be got by arts and industry. He will often argne, that if this part of our trade were well cultivated, we should gain from one nation ; and if... | |
 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - 1857 - 200 pages
...Irade 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 from one nation ; ana if another part of our trade were well cultivated, we should gain from another nation." The following... | |
 | Spectator The - 1857 - 786 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 by arms : for true power is to be gx>t by arts and industry. He will often argue, that if this part of our trade were well cultivated,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 466 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,... | |
 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - 1859 - 222 pages
...there is a very considerable one : " He will often argue, that it this part of our trade were woll 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... | |
 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - 1860 - 220 pages
...were well cultivated, we should gain from one nation; and if another, from another;" that is, "He wil/ often argue, that if this part of our trade were well cultivated, we shoulc gain from one nation ; and if another part of our trade were well cultivated, we should gain... | |
 | English syntax - 1873 - 104 pages
...their Creator. 11. The proof in that case might confound, but they could not rationally convince. 12. He will often argue, that if this part of our trade...gain from one nation ; and if another, from another. 13. It rs a common remark, that benefits are sooner forgotten thaa injuries, and favours than affronts.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 584 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...trade were well cultivated, we should gain from one nation,—and if another, from another. I have heard him prove, that diligence kes more lasting acquisitions... | |
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His notions of trade are noble and generous, and (as every rich man has usually some sly way of jesting which would make no great figure were he not a rich man) he calls the sea the British Common. He is acquainted with commerce in all its parts, and... 
