Selections from the Economic History of the United States, 1765-1860: With Introductory EssaysGinn, 1909 - 819 páginas |
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... kind . Specie is no doubt the most perfect instrument to serve as a medium of exchange , but it is a very expensive one , and a new country may for some time be too poor to afford it . The same necessity , which induces the inhabitants ...
... kind . Specie is no doubt the most perfect instrument to serve as a medium of exchange , but it is a very expensive one , and a new country may for some time be too poor to afford it . The same necessity , which induces the inhabitants ...
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... kind of rum , which , though much inferior to that of the West- Indies , was very acceptable to the Indians , who joyfully received it in exchange for their furs and peltry . They also found a great vent for it among their own fishermen ...
... kind of rum , which , though much inferior to that of the West- Indies , was very acceptable to the Indians , who joyfully received it in exchange for their furs and peltry . They also found a great vent for it among their own fishermen ...
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... kind of circular commerce they subsist and grow rich . They have besides these some other inconsiderable branches of trade , but nothing worth mentioning . They have very few manufactures ; they distil rum and make spermaceti candles ...
... kind of circular commerce they subsist and grow rich . They have besides these some other inconsiderable branches of trade , but nothing worth mentioning . They have very few manufactures ; they distil rum and make spermaceti candles ...
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... kind of cotton - cloth , with which they clothe themselves in common , and call after the name of their country ; and some inconsiderable quantities of linen , hose , and other trifling articles : but nothing to_deserve attention . . X ...
... kind of cotton - cloth , with which they clothe themselves in common , and call after the name of their country ; and some inconsiderable quantities of linen , hose , and other trifling articles : but nothing to_deserve attention . . X ...
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... kind from abroad , and to bear the expense of its own exportation . But no man , who can have a piece of land of his own , sufficient by his labor to subsist his family in plenty , is poor enough to be à manufacturer , and work for a ...
... kind from abroad , and to bear the expense of its own exportation . But no man , who can have a piece of land of his own , sufficient by his labor to subsist his family in plenty , is poor enough to be à manufacturer , and work for a ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
acts of parliament advantage American Revolution amount Britain British colonies British manufactures British West Indies canal Carolina carried cattle coast colonists commerce commodities Congress consequence considerable considered cotton currency debt duties economic employed England English Erie Canal established Europe European expence exports fish fisheries flour foreign France French Great-Britain greater imported increase India indigo industry inhabitants interest iron islands labour land means ment merchants miles Mississippi molasses mother country nation naval stores navigation navigation acts North America North Carolina northern colonies Ohio Orleans Parliament Pennsylvania plantations planters political population ports Portugal present produce profit prohibited province provisions purchase quantity railroad remittances revenue Revolution rice river secure ships slaves South southern Spain spermaceti Stamp Act staple sugar supply taxes tion tobacco trade treaty United vessels Virginia wealth West Indies Western whole woollen York
Passagens conhecidas
Página 108 - To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers.
Página 668 - An Act providing for the sale of the Lands of the United States in the Territory northwest of the Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky river...
Página 56 - England, shall be, from time to time, and forever hereafter, a body corporate and politic, in fact and name, by the name of the Governor and Company of the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, in New England, in America...
Página 116 - To prohibit a great people, however, from making all that they can of every part of their own produce, or from employing their stock and industry in the way that they judge most advantageous to themselves, is a manifest violation of the most sacred rights of mankind.
Página 690 - An act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain...
Página 658 - THE colony of a civilized nation which takes possession either of a waste country, or of one so thinly inhabited that the natives easily give place to the new settlers, advances more rapidly to wealth and greatness than any other human society.
Página 675 - That no lands acquired under the provisions of this act shall in any event become liable to the satisfaction of any debt or debts contracted prior to the issuing of the patent therefor.
Página 153 - That a committee be chosen in every county, city, and town, by those who are qualified to vote for Representatives in the Legislature, whose business it shall be attentively to observe the conduct of all persons touching this association...
Página 195 - ... are held by every tie respectable among men? These are the subjects of constant and unblushing violation. Do we owe debts to foreigners and to our own citizens contracted in a time of imminent peril for the preservation of our political existence? These remain without any proper or satisfactory provision for their discharge. Have we valuable territories and important posts in the possession of a foreign power which, by express stipulations, ought long since to have been surrendered?
Página 392 - Congress and presented for his approval, "setting apart and pledging certain funds for constructing roads and canals and improving the navigation of water courses, in order to facilitate, promote, and give security to internal commerce among the several States and to render more easy and less expensive the means and provisions for the common defense.