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... manufactures . " For my part , " says he , " I esteem the banks of New- foundland to be a more valuable possession than the mountains of Potosi ; and when I have been there on the fishing account , have looked upon every cod pulled up ...
... manufactures . " For my part , " says he , " I esteem the banks of New- foundland to be a more valuable possession than the mountains of Potosi ; and when I have been there on the fishing account , have looked upon every cod pulled up ...
Page 66
... manufacture , and their richest robes were the skins of the most formidable mon- sters : they carried on trade without books , and correspondence without posts : their merchants kept no accounts , their shopkeepers no cash - books ...
... manufacture , and their richest robes were the skins of the most formidable mon- sters : they carried on trade without books , and correspondence without posts : their merchants kept no accounts , their shopkeepers no cash - books ...
Page 5
... manufactures , & c . is too remote to require the attention of Great Britain . 10. But , in proportion to the increase of the co lonies , a vast demand is growing for British manu- factures ; a glorious market , wholly in the power ...
... manufactures , & c . is too remote to require the attention of Great Britain . 10. But , in proportion to the increase of the co lonies , a vast demand is growing for British manu- factures ; a glorious market , wholly in the power ...
Page 6
... manufactures with Britain . The labour of slaves can never be so cheap here as the labour of working men is in Britain . Any one may compute it . Interest of money is in the colonies from six to ten per cent . Slaves , one with another ...
... manufactures with Britain . The labour of slaves can never be so cheap here as the labour of working men is in Britain . Any one may compute it . Interest of money is in the colonies from six to ten per cent . Slaves , one with another ...
Page 7
... Manufactures , exported , draw sub- sistence from foreign countries for numbers , who are thereby enabled to marry and raise families . If the nation be deprived of any branch of trade , and no new employment is found for the people ...
... Manufactures , exported , draw sub- sistence from foreign countries for numbers , who are thereby enabled to marry and raise families . If the nation be deprived of any branch of trade , and no new employment is found for the people ...
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