 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford - 1894 - 462 pages
...paper.— Dr. Jjhuiom't Lift of АЛduo». 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,... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1895 - 530 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 1. The Rose... | |
 | A. Meserole - 1896 - 450 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,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1896 - 256 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,... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1896 - 580 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...were well cultivated, we should gain from one nation ; 20 and if another, from another. I have heard him prove, that diligence makes more lasting acquisitions... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1897 - 298 pages
...it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms : for true power is to be got by arts 20 and industry. He will often argue that if this part...valour, and that sloth has ruined more nations than 25 the sword. He abounds in several frugal maxims, amongst which the greatest favourite is, " A penny... | |
 | 1917 - 888 pages
...(note the name) in the pages of The Spectator, two centuries ago, "The sea is the British Common," and "it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion...for true power is to be got by arts and industry." Yet the real secret of it all is missed by both foreigner and Englishman. It lies in the seeming paradox... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1897 - 320 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 got by arts 20 and industry. He will often argue that if this part of our trade were well cultivated, we should... | |
 | SAMUEL THRBER - 1898 - 236 pages
...calls the sea fihe 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,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1898 - 264 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 j1 for true power is to 10 be got by arts and industry. He will often argue that if this part of our... | |
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