Political FragmentsW. Blackwood, 1830 - 225 sider |
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... riches long continued to increase among us , and have adorned the British Isles . Every art has been improved , every science extended ; all the ac- commodations of private life have been augmented ; we have seen Europe desolated by ...
... riches long continued to increase among us , and have adorned the British Isles . Every art has been improved , every science extended ; all the ac- commodations of private life have been augmented ; we have seen Europe desolated by ...
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... rich eastern provinces . Even our Anglo- American brethren look eagerly towards the same prize . Any convulsion at home would deprive us of these rich settlements , and of all that influx of wealth which daily pours in upon us from ...
... rich eastern provinces . Even our Anglo- American brethren look eagerly towards the same prize . Any convulsion at home would deprive us of these rich settlements , and of all that influx of wealth which daily pours in upon us from ...
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... riches , cap- able of contending with advantage against any Eu- ropean people of double their numbers , not so sup- plied or supported . Its weakness consists in the scattered and remote situation of its parts , and the imperfections of ...
... riches , cap- able of contending with advantage against any Eu- ropean people of double their numbers , not so sup- plied or supported . Its weakness consists in the scattered and remote situation of its parts , and the imperfections of ...
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... an acre of poor land , instead of feeding half a sheep , produced forty - eight bushels of wheat ; and thus plenty and riches were made to abound . What is styled free trade in manufactures is just this 10 POLITICAL FRAGMENTS .
... an acre of poor land , instead of feeding half a sheep , produced forty - eight bushels of wheat ; and thus plenty and riches were made to abound . What is styled free trade in manufactures is just this 10 POLITICAL FRAGMENTS .
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... rich ; but to their astonishment , the money seemed to disappear as if by some enchantment . Armies were no doubt levied and paid ; but their own manufacturers got nothing , and their merchants as little . On the other hand , the more ...
... rich ; but to their astonishment , the money seemed to disappear as if by some enchantment . Armies were no doubt levied and paid ; but their own manufacturers got nothing , and their merchants as little . On the other hand , the more ...
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Side 98 - An Act for the further limitation of the Crown, and better securing the rights and liberties of the subject, is and stands limited to the Princess Sophia, Electress and Duchess Dowager of Hanover and the heirs of her body being protestants.
Side 2 - And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes part of potter's clay and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided ; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. 42. And as the toes of the feet were part of iron and part of clay ; so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly broken.
Side 56 - ... by reason of the great interest and profit which hath been made of money at home, the foreign trade of this nation hath of late years been much neglected, and at this time there is a great abatement in the value of the merchandizes, wares and commodities of this kingdom, both at home and in foreign parts, whither they are transported: And whereas for the redress of these mischiefs, and the preventing the increase of the same, it is absolutely necessary to reduce the high rate of interest of six...
Side 151 - Catholics are charged with dividing their allegiance between their temporal sovereign and the Pope. Allegiance relates not to spiritual but to civil duties ; to those temporal tributes and obligations, which the subject owes to the person of his sovereign, and to the authority of the state. By the term spiritual, we here mean that which in its nature tends directly to a supernatural end, or is ordained to produce a supernatural effect. Thus the office of teaching the doctrines of faith, the administration...
Side 128 - I do hereby disclaim, disavow, and solemnly abjure any Intention to subvert the present Church Establishment as settled by Law within this Realm: And I do solemnly swear, That I never will exercise any Privilege to which I am or may become entitled, to disturb or weaken the Protestant Religion or Protestant Government in the United Kingdom...
Side 98 - Britain and the dominions thereunto belonging or any part thereof and in every such case the crown and government shall from time to time descend to and be enjoyed by such person being a protestant as should have inherited and enjoyed the same in case such papist or person marrying a papist was naturally dead according to...
Side 98 - Dominions thereunto belonging after Her most Sacred Majesty and in Default of Issue of Her Majesty be remain and continue to the most Excellent Princess Sophia Electoress and Duchess Dowager of Hanover and the Heirs of Her Body being Protestants upon whom the Crown of England is settled...
Side 97 - Act for securing of the Protestant religion and Presbyterian Church government, which by the tenor thereof was appointed to be inserted in any Act ratifying the treaty, and expressly declared to be a fundamental and essential condition of the said treaty or union in all...
Side 54 - Interest hath been for about twenty Years at six per cent, notwithstanding our long civil Wars, and the great complaints of the deadness of Trade, there are more men to be found upon the Exchange now worth Ten thousand Pounds Estates, then were then of One Thousand Pounds.
Side 56 - Whereas, the reducing of interest to ten, and from thence to eight, and thence to six, in the hundred, hath from time to time by experience been found very beneficial to the advancement of trade and improvement of lands...