The Colonies of England: A Plan for the Government of Some Portion of Our Colonial Possessions"Chiefly British North America, but New Zealand 'not of a size to need more than one Provincial Government'--p. 164-5"--Bagnall. |
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... mischievous . It was easy to find pretexts for interfering with the affairs of the Colonies ; it was very difficult to make interference anything but an evil to the colony , and thereby to England . On this topic , however , I will not ...
... mischievous . It was easy to find pretexts for interfering with the affairs of the Colonies ; it was very difficult to make interference anything but an evil to the colony , and thereby to England . On this topic , however , I will not ...
Page 1
... mischievous intermeddling of the English government , not in consequence of its wise and provident assistance . In the following pages an attempt will be made to discover , if possible , a means of preventing the continuance of this ...
... mischievous intermeddling of the English government , not in consequence of its wise and provident assistance . In the following pages an attempt will be made to discover , if possible , a means of preventing the continuance of this ...
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... mischievous additions to our dominions- maintained partly from pride , and partly from a false notion of gain resulting from them . They assert , and truly , that hitherto our colonies have been to us a source of constant quarrel with ...
... mischievous additions to our dominions- maintained partly from pride , and partly from a false notion of gain resulting from them . They assert , and truly , that hitherto our colonies have been to us a source of constant quarrel with ...
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... mischievous and costly . perceive that this conclusion is favoured by political economists generally , ( not by all indeed , for there are some remarkable exceptions , ) and I also perceive that the members of parliament who are classed ...
... mischievous and costly . perceive that this conclusion is favoured by political economists generally , ( not by all indeed , for there are some remarkable exceptions , ) and I also perceive that the members of parliament who are classed ...
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... mischievous to the colonies , and though it was at every stage of their history strenuously resisted by them . They naturally believed what we taught , and imitated the example which we had so per- tinaciously set . The doom , however ...
... mischievous to the colonies , and though it was at every stage of their history strenuously resisted by them . They naturally believed what we taught , and imitated the example which we had so per- tinaciously set . The doom , however ...
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