An Estimate of the Comparative Strength of Great-Britain, During the Present and Four Preceding Reigns: And of the Losses of Her Trade from Every War Since the Revolution |
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... purpose of an enquiry , with regard to the permanent strength of nations . When you have fettled , by fuppofing , that the most potent powers in Europe are on the verge of bankruptcy , you predict in the fame ftrain of logic , that ...
... purpose of an enquiry , with regard to the permanent strength of nations . When you have fettled , by fuppofing , that the most potent powers in Europe are on the verge of bankruptcy , you predict in the fame ftrain of logic , that ...
Page xxiv
... purposes , who derive an energy from the conftitution , and place a confidence in their rulers , We not only produced more , owing to those caufes , but the countries around us confumed more , during late times , owing to fimilar caufes ...
... purposes , who derive an energy from the conftitution , and place a confidence in their rulers , We not only produced more , owing to those caufes , but the countries around us confumed more , during late times , owing to fimilar caufes ...
Page xlviii
... purpose , many of them iffued notes , optional , to be paid , in the country , or in London . * By these means , their notes came oftener , and in greater numbers , to London , than were welcome , in the shops of London . These notes ...
... purpose , many of them iffued notes , optional , to be paid , in the country , or in London . * By these means , their notes came oftener , and in greater numbers , to London , than were welcome , in the shops of London . These notes ...
Page liv
... purposes throughout your " All contradictions , fays Sidney , grow in those minds , which neither abfolutely " climb the rock of virtue , nor freely fink into the " fea of vanity . " When we have thus eftimated the value of con ...
... purposes throughout your " All contradictions , fays Sidney , grow in those minds , which neither abfolutely " climb the rock of virtue , nor freely fink into the " fea of vanity . " When we have thus eftimated the value of con ...
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... purpose : Tepper failed , as other bankers have failed , not from the preffures of war , or the rapacity of power , but from un- bounded expences , and relaxed management . I will admit , that several houses in the British factory alfo ...
... purpose : Tepper failed , as other bankers have failed , not from the preffures of war , or the rapacity of power , but from un- bounded expences , and relaxed management . I will admit , that several houses in the British factory alfo ...
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