| English literature - 1776 - 746 pages
...Already forely diftrefled people. By fluitting up the port of Bofton, fome imagine that the courfe of trade might be turned hither, and to our benefit; but nature, io the formation of our harbour, forbids our becoming rivals in commerce with that coirvenient mart.... | |
| History - 1778 - 626 pages
...endeavours to prevent a further accumulation of evils on that already »orely distressed people."' " By shutting up the port of Boston, some imagine that the course of trade might b» turned hither, and to our benefit ; but nature, in the iitrmalion of our harbour, forbids our becoming... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1780 - 700 pages
...diftrefled people." — " By .{hutting up the port of Bofton, fome imagine that the courfe of trade may be turned hither, and to our benefit ; but nature, in the formation of our harbour, forbids our becoming rivals in commerce with that convenient mart. And were it otherwife,... | |
| John Andrews - Great Britain - 1785 - 470 pages
...with thefe remarkable words : — " By fhutting up the port of " Bofton, fome imagine that the courfe of trade " might be turned hither, and to our benefit ; but " Nature in the formation of our harbour, forbids " our becoming rivals in commerce with that conV venient mart ; and were it otherwife,... | |
| William Gordon - United States - 1788 - 676 pages
...already forely diftrefled people." — " By fhutting up the port of Bofton, fome imagine that the courfe of trade might be turned hither and to our benefit ; but nature in the formation of our harbour, forbids our becoming rivals in commerce with that convenient mart. And were it otherwife,... | |
| History - 1791 - 634 pages
...already fordy diftrefled people." " By (hutting up the port of Boftonj fome imagine that the courfe <f trade might be turned hither, and to our benefit ; but nature, in the formation of our harbour, forbids our becoming rivals in commerce with that convenient mart. And were it otherwife,... | |
| William Belsham - Great Britain - 1795 - 374 pages
...a fenfe of our public calamities:—by fhutting up the port of Bofton, fome imagine that the courfe of trade might be turned hither, and to our benefit;...our harbor, forbids our becoming rivals in commerce with that convenient mart; and were it otherwife, we muft be dead to every idea of juftice, and loft... | |
| William Belsham - Great Britain - 1795 - 496 pages
...general court. " We are," say they, " most deeply afflicted with a sense of our public calamities. — By shutting up the port of Boston, some imagine that...course of trade might be turned hither, and to our BOOK benefit ; but nature, in the formation of DOT A \ I • harl>or, forbids our becoming rivals in... | |
| William Winterbotham - History - 1795 - 626 pages
...concluding with thefe remarkable words: " By Shutting up the port of Bofton, fome imagine that the courfe of trade might be turned hither, and to our benefit; but nature, in the formatioa of our harbour, forbids our becoming rivals in commerce with that convenient mart; and were... | |
| Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1798 - 524 pages
...already-forely diftrefled people. By (hutting up the port of Bofton, fome imagine, that the ccurfe of trade might be turned hither, and to our benefit ; but nature, in the formation of our harbour, forbids our becoming riv.ils in commerce to that Convenient mart. And, were it ctherwife,... | |
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