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If he that shared the danger enjoyed the profit , and after bleeding in the battle
grew rich by the victory , he might show his gains without envy . But at the
conclusion of a ten years war , how are we recompensed for the death of
multitudes and ...
If he that shared the danger enjoyed the profit , and after bleeding in the battle
grew rich by the victory , he might show his gains without envy . But at the
conclusion of a ten years war , how are we recompensed for the death of
multitudes and ...
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If he be honest , he is hardly rich ; and if he be disposed to rob ,. * In the first
edition , this passage stood thus : “ Let him not , however , be depreciated in his
grave . He had powers not universally possessed ; could he have enforced
payment ...
If he be honest , he is hardly rich ; and if he be disposed to rob ,. * In the first
edition , this passage stood thus : “ Let him not , however , be depreciated in his
grave . He had powers not universally possessed ; could he have enforced
payment ...
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The great mass of nations is neither rich nor gay : they whose aggregate
constitutes the people , are found in the streets and the villages , in the shops and
farms ; and from them , collectively considered , must the measure of general
prosperity ...
The great mass of nations is neither rich nor gay : they whose aggregate
constitutes the people , are found in the streets and the villages , in the shops and
farms ; and from them , collectively considered , must the measure of general
prosperity ...
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Where there is no commerce nor manufacture , he that is born poor can scarcely
become rich ; and if none are able to buy estates , he that is born to land cannot
annihilate his family by selling it . This was once the state of these countries .
Where there is no commerce nor manufacture , he that is born poor can scarcely
become rich ; and if none are able to buy estates , he that is born to land cannot
annihilate his family by selling it . This was once the state of these countries .
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He therefore who is born poor never can be rich . The son merely occupies the
place of the father , and life knows nothing of progression or advancement . The
petty tenants , and labouring peasants , live in miserable cabins , which afford ...
He therefore who is born poor never can be rich . The son merely occupies the
place of the father , and life knows nothing of progression or advancement . The
petty tenants , and labouring peasants , live in miserable cabins , which afford ...
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204 ページ - His violent prejudice against our West Indian and American settlers appeared whenever there was an opportunity. Towards the conclusion of his " Taxation no Tyranny," he says, " how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
71 ページ - that having been in this session of parliament expelled this house, he was and is incapable of being elected a member to serve in this present parliament.
177 ページ - British parliament, as are, bona fide, restrained to the regulation of our external commerce, for the purpose of securing the commercial advantages of the whole empire to the mother country, and the commercial benefits of its respective members ; excluding every idea of taxation, internal or external, for raising a revenue on the subjects in America, without their consent.
177 ページ - ... as the English colonists are not represented, and from their local and other circumstances cannot properly be represented in the British parliament, they are entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation in their several provincial legislatures...
174 ページ - That they are entitled to life, liberty, and property, and they have never ceded to any sovereign power whatever, a right to dispose of either without their consent.
390 ページ - ... has not made the experiment, or who is not accustomed to require rigorous accuracy from himself, will scarcely believe how much a few hours take from certainty of knowledge, and distinctness of imagery ; how the succession of objects will be broken, how separate parts will be confused, and how many particular features and discriminations will be compressed and conglobated into one gross and general idea.
273 ページ - We came thither too late to see what we expected, a people of peculiar appearance, and a system of antiquated life. The clans retain little now of their original character, their ferocity of temper is softened, their military ardour is extinguished, their dignity of independence is depressed, their contempt of government subdued, and the reverence for their chiefs abated.
176 ページ - That, by such emigration, they by no means forfeited, surrendered, or lost, any of those rights, but that they were, and their descendants now are, entitled to the exercise and enjoyment of all such of them, as their local and other circumstances enable them to exercise and enjoy.
251 ページ - We were in this place at ease and by choice, and had no evils to suffer or to fear; yet the imaginations excited by the view of an unknown and untravelled wilderness are not such as arise in the artificial solitude of parks and gardens...
352 ページ - ... always feel their own ignorance. They are not much accustomed to be interrogated by others : and seem never to have thought upon interrogating themselves ; so that if they do not know what they tell to be true, they likewise do not distinctly perceive it to be false. Mr. Boswell was very diligent in his inquiries ; and the result of his investigations was, that the answer to the second question was commonly such as nullified the answer to the first.