 ... he 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 and industry. He will often argue, that if...  Select British Classics - Página 101803Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Leigh Hunt - 1852 - 460 páginas
...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 and .industry....that diligence makes more lasting acquisitions than valor; and that sloth has ruined more nations than the sword. He abounds in several frugal maxims,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1852 - 470 páginas
...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 and industry....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 - 1852 - 216 páginas
...In the following instance, there is a very considerable one: "He will often argue, that it this port of our trade 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1852 - 272 páginas
...following instance there is a very considerable one :, "He will often argue, that if this part of pur trade 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1852 - 272 páginas
...one nation ; and if another, from another ;" that is, " He will often argue, that if this part »f our trade were well cultivated, we should gain from one nation, and if another part of rtur trade were well cultivated, we should gain from another nation." The following instances,... | |
 | 1852 - 248 páginas
...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 and industry. Ho will often argue, that if this part of our trade were well cultivated, we should gain from one nation... | |
 | Saxe Bannister - 1852 - 322 páginas
...vol. ii., p. 388. " Sir Andrew Freeport held it to be a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms, for true power is to be got by arts and industry." — Spectator, No. 2, AD 1710. " In colonizing the interior of South Africa, the Government ought to... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 1118 páginas
...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 and industry....lasting acquisitions than valour, and that sloth has ruiued more nations than the sword. He abounds in several frugal maxims, amongst which the greatest... | |
 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - 1853 - 204 páginas
...cultivated, we should gain from one nation; and if another, from another;" that is, "He will oi'ten argue, that if this part of our trade were well cultivated, we should gain from one nation ; and if another part of our trade were well cultivated, we should gain from another nation." The following instances,... | |
 | 1853 - 756 páginas
...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... | |
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