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Page 189
... trade , and our foreign politics : not for the sake of the particular measures which he discusses that can be of no use ; they are all decided ; their good is all enjoyed , or their evil incurred ; but for the sake of the principles of ...
... trade , and our foreign politics : not for the sake of the particular measures which he discusses that can be of no use ; they are all decided ; their good is all enjoyed , or their evil incurred ; but for the sake of the principles of ...
Page 190
... trade , so great a source of wealth and marine , was entirely engrossed by the neutral nations . The number of British ships annually arriving in our ports was reduced 1756 sail , containing 92,559 tons , on a medium of the six years ...
... trade , so great a source of wealth and marine , was entirely engrossed by the neutral nations . The number of British ships annually arriving in our ports was reduced 1756 sail , containing 92,559 tons , on a medium of the six years ...
Page 191
... trade must necessary occasion a de- crease of the public revenue ; and a deficiency of our funds must either be made up by fresh taxes , which would only add to the calamity ; or our national credit must be destroyed , by showing the ...
... trade must necessary occasion a de- crease of the public revenue ; and a deficiency of our funds must either be made up by fresh taxes , which would only add to the calamity ; or our national credit must be destroyed , by showing the ...
Page 192
... trade and augmentation of revenue ; if a continued series of disappointments , disgraces , and defeats , followed by public bankruptcy , on the part of France ; if all these still leave her a gainer on the whole balance , will it not be ...
... trade and augmentation of revenue ; if a continued series of disappointments , disgraces , and defeats , followed by public bankruptcy , on the part of France ; if all these still leave her a gainer on the whole balance , will it not be ...
Page 193
... trade , the ruin of our credit , the defeat of our armies , and the loss of our ultramarine dominions , ( whatever the author may think of them , ) to be the highroad to prosperity and greatness . The reader does not , I hope , imagine ...
... trade , the ruin of our credit , the defeat of our armies , and the loss of our ultramarine dominions , ( whatever the author may think of them , ) to be the highroad to prosperity and greatness . The reader does not , I hope , imagine ...
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