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Page 190
... but knowing them to be fallacious , they wisely resolved to profit of their
splendour before our enemies should also discover the imposition . The increase
in the exports was found to have been occasioned chiefly by the demands of our
own ...
... but knowing them to be fallacious , they wisely resolved to profit of their
splendour before our enemies should also discover the imposition . The increase
in the exports was found to have been occasioned chiefly by the demands of our
own ...
Page 196
On this state the reader will observe , that I take the imports from , and not the
exports to , these conquests , as the measure ... Our export entry does not
comprehend the greatest trade we carry on with any of the West India islands ,
the sale of ...
On this state the reader will observe , that I take the imports from , and not the
exports to , these conquests , as the measure ... Our export entry does not
comprehend the greatest trade we carry on with any of the West India islands ,
the sale of ...
Page 197
I perhaps with unwillingness , but with the clearest conviction , if he considers ,
that in the year 1763 , after we had ceased to export to the isles of Guadaloupe
and Martinico , and to the Havannah , and after the colonies were free to send all
...
I perhaps with unwillingness , but with the clearest conviction , if he considers ,
that in the year 1763 , after we had ceased to export to the isles of Guadaloupe
and Martinico , and to the Havannah , and after the colonies were free to send all
...
Page 198
Admit however that a great part of our export , though nothing is more remote
from fact , was owing to the supply of our fleets and armies ; was it not something
? — was it not peculiarly fortunate for a nation , that she was able from her own ...
Admit however that a great part of our export , though nothing is more remote
from fact , was owing to the supply of our fleets and armies ; was it not something
? — was it not peculiarly fortunate for a nation , that she was able from her own ...
Page 217
Thus the coarsest woollens were formerly exported in great quantities to Russia .
The Russians now supply themselves with these goods . But the export thither of
finer cloths has increased in proportion as the other has declined . Possibly ...
Thus the coarsest woollens were formerly exported in great quantities to Russia .
The Russians now supply themselves with these goods . But the export thither of
finer cloths has increased in proportion as the other has declined . Possibly ...
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| Title | The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1 Bohn's British classics Bohn's British classics: Burke's works The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Edmund Burke |
| Author | Edmund Burke |
| Edition | 5, revised |
| Publisher | Henry G. Bohn, 1854 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 21 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 512 pages |
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