A Colonist on the Colonial QuestionLongmans, Green, and Company, 1872 - 224 páginas |
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... maintaining it . The reasons found , or invented , are , as might have been expected , various and discordant enough . Now it is the amount of colonial trade ; now it is the preference of our people for the Colonies as places of ...
... maintaining it . The reasons found , or invented , are , as might have been expected , various and discordant enough . Now it is the amount of colonial trade ; now it is the preference of our people for the Colonies as places of ...
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... maintained . 6 According to the article Imports and Exports , ' in McCulloch's Commercial Dictionary , the average of the exports to the North American Colonies from 1749 to 1755 was 1,238,000l . per annum ; and of those to the United ...
... maintained . 6 According to the article Imports and Exports , ' in McCulloch's Commercial Dictionary , the average of the exports to the North American Colonies from 1749 to 1755 was 1,238,000l . per annum ; and of those to the United ...
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... maintains that the possession of Canada , and that alone , keeps England constantly on the brink of war with the great Anglo - Saxon Republic , ' and not only this , but also that Canada's sole danger of attack arises from the ...
... maintains that the possession of Canada , and that alone , keeps England constantly on the brink of war with the great Anglo - Saxon Republic , ' and not only this , but also that Canada's sole danger of attack arises from the ...
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... maintaining it . " England would thus be deprived of active allies , numbering nearly seven millions of people , all over the globe , and her enemy would gain immensely in the means of inflicting injury on her commerce in every sea ...
... maintaining it . " England would thus be deprived of active allies , numbering nearly seven millions of people , all over the globe , and her enemy would gain immensely in the means of inflicting injury on her commerce in every sea ...
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... ; many prejudices and some interests are bound up with it , and reasons must be found or invented for maintaining it . The reasons found or in- AN ANALYSIS . 37 vented are , as might be 36 A COLONIST ON THE COLONIAL QUESTION .
... ; many prejudices and some interests are bound up with it , and reasons must be found or invented for maintaining it . The reasons found or in- AN ANALYSIS . 37 vented are , as might be 36 A COLONIST ON THE COLONIAL QUESTION .
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