The Political State of the British Empire: Containing a General View of the Domestic and Foreign Possessions of the Crown; the Laws, Commerce, Revenues, Offices, and Other Establishments, Civil and Military, Volumen 3T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1818 |
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... Building act Engines WATER Water Companies PLACES OF AMUSEMENT Drury Lane Theatre Covent Garden Theatre Haymarket Theatre 512 515 517 518 519 522 524 · 525 529 531 ib . 532 533 ib . 534 535 537 538 546 548 552 The Page The Opera House ...
... Building act Engines WATER Water Companies PLACES OF AMUSEMENT Drury Lane Theatre Covent Garden Theatre Haymarket Theatre 512 515 517 518 519 522 524 · 525 529 531 ib . 532 533 ib . 534 535 537 538 546 548 552 The Page The Opera House ...
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... building . That on the , weft leads into the old court , a handsome Gothic quadrangle , 100 feet fquare ; and above the gateway are two ftatues ; one on the outfide of Queen Anne , another within of James II . Above the other gateway ...
... building . That on the , weft leads into the old court , a handsome Gothic quadrangle , 100 feet fquare ; and above the gateway are two ftatues ; one on the outfide of Queen Anne , another within of James II . Above the other gateway ...
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... buildings about this court are ancient , except the east end , which is finished in the manner in which the rest of that ... building , rather resembling a modern dwelling - house , with a beautiful front to the street , erected at the ...
... buildings about this court are ancient , except the east end , which is finished in the manner in which the rest of that ... building , rather resembling a modern dwelling - house , with a beautiful front to the street , erected at the ...
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... building being no more than the choir and crofs - aifle . Such a defign was more easy to be imagined than executed ; and , after all , moft likely reached no farther than the carrying on the building , as far as it went , in the ...
... building being no more than the choir and crofs - aifle . Such a defign was more easy to be imagined than executed ; and , after all , moft likely reached no farther than the carrying on the building , as far as it went , in the ...
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... buildings of the quadrangle , befides other confiderable donations . Queen Anne annexed a prebend of Rochetter to the provoftfhip for ever ; Dr. Robinfon , bishop of London , befides the new building , gave 25col to augment the ...
... buildings of the quadrangle , befides other confiderable donations . Queen Anne annexed a prebend of Rochetter to the provoftfhip for ever ; Dr. Robinfon , bishop of London , befides the new building , gave 25col to augment the ...
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Página 200 - ... surprisals, takings at sea, arrests, restraints, and detainments of all kings, princes, and people, of what nation, condition, or quality soever...
Página 200 - ... arrests, restraints, and detainments of all kings, princes, and people, of what nation, condition, or quality soever, barratry of the master and mariners, and of all other perils, losses, and misfortunes, that have or shall come to the hurt, detriment, or damage of the said goods and merchandises, and ship, &c., or any part thereof.
Página 168 - As defence, however, is of much more importance than opulence, the act of navigation is, perhaps, the wisest of all the commercial regulations of England.
Página 170 - The monopoly of the colony trade, therefore, so far as it has turned towards that trade a greater proportion of the capital of Great Britain than what would...
Página 142 - If this capital is divided between two different grocers, their competition will tend to make both of them sell cheaper than if it were in the hands of one only ; and if it were divided among twenty, their competition would be just so much the greater, and the chance of their combining together in order to raise the price just so much the less.
Página 142 - He is thereby enabled to employ almost his whole stock as a capital. He is thus enabled to furnish work to a greater value ; and the profit which he makes by it in this way much more than compensates the additional price which the profit of the retailer imposes upon the goods.
Página 33 - The Hall is by far the moft magnificent room of the kind in Oxford, and perhaps one of the largeft in the kingdom. The roof is framed of timber, curioufly wrought, and fo contrived as to produce a very grand and noble effect.
Página 397 - ... his own debts, it is his misfortune and not his fault. To the misfortunes, therefore, of debtors, the law has given a compassionate remedy...
Página 168 - The act of navigation is not favourable to foreign commerce, or to the growth of that opulence which can arise from it. The interest of a nation in its commercial relations to foreign nations is, like that of a merchant with regard to the different people with whom he deals, to buy as cheap and to sell as dear as possible.
Página 276 - Good roads, canals, and navigable rivers, by diminishing the expense of carriage, put the remote parts of the country more nearly upon a level with those in the neighbourhood of the town. They are upon that account the greatest of all improvements.