 ... 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 - Page 101803Full view - About this book
 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1852 - 460 pages
...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 - English literature - 1852 - 470 pages
...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 - English language - 1852 - 216 pages
...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 - English language - 1852 - 272 pages
...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 - English language - 1852 - 272 pages
...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,... | |
 | English literature - 1852 - 248 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1852 - 322 pages
...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 pages
...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 - English language - 1853 - 204 pages
...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 pages
...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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