| English literature - 1776 - 746 pages
...to prevent a further accumulation of evils 'on that Already forely diftrefled people. By fluitting up the port of Bofton, fome imagine that the courfe...be turned hither, and to our benefit; but nature, io the formation of our harbour, forbids our becoming rivals in commerce with that coirvenient mart.... | |
| History - 1778 - 626 pages
...that the course of trade might b» turned hither, and to our benefit ; but nature, in the iitrmalion of our harbour, forbids our becoming rivals in commerce with that convenient mart. And were it otherwise, we must be dead to every idea of justice, lost to all feelings of humanity, could we indulge... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1780 - 700 pages
...prevent a further accumulation of evils on that already forely diftrefled people." — " By .{hutting up the port of Bofton, fome imagine that the courfe of trade may be turned hither, and to our benefit ; but nature, in the formation of our harbour, forbids our... | |
| John Andrews - Great Britain - 1785 - 470 pages
...with all the lenity that remained in his power ; and concluded with thefe remarkable words : — " By fhutting up the port of " Bofton, fome imagine...forbids " our becoming rivals in commerce with that conV venient mart ; and were it otherwife, we muft " be dead to every idea of juftice, loft to all... | |
| William Belsham - Great Britain - 1795 - 374 pages
...General Court. " We are," fay they, " moft deeply afflicted with a fenfe of our public calamities:—by fhutting up the port of Bofton, fome imagine that...to our benefit; but nature, in the formation of our harbor, forbids our becoming rivals in commerce with that convenient mart; and were it otherwife, we... | |
| William Winterbotham - History - 1795 - 626 pages
...inhabitants of Salem in favour of thofc of Bofton, and concluding with thefe remarkable words: " By Shutting up the port of Bofton, fome imagine that the courfe...turned hither, and to our benefit; but nature, in the formatioa of our harbour, forbids our becoming rivals in commerce with that convenient mart; and were... | |
| William Belsham - Great Britain - 1796 - 504 pages
...fay they, tt moft deeply afHicied with a fenfe of our public calami" ' ' • ties: — ties :• — by fhutting up the port of Bofton, fome imagine that...our benefit ; but nature, in the formation of our harbor, forbids our becoming rivals in commerce with that convenient mart ; and were it otherwife,... | |
| William Belsham - Great Britain - 1796 - 508 pages
...fay they, " moft deeply afflicted with a fenfs of our public calamities : — ties : — by feinting up the port of Bofton, fome imagine that the courfe...our benefit ; but nature, in the formation of our harbor, forbids our becoming rivals in commerce with that convenient mart ; and were it other wife,... | |
| Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1798 - 524 pages
...already-forely diftrefled people. By (hutting up the port of Bofton, fome imagine, that the ccurfe of trade might be turned hither, and to our benefit...the formation of our harbour, forbids our becoming riv.ils in commerce to that Convenient mart. And, were it ctherwife, we muft be dead to every idea... | |
| John Marshall - 1804 - 562 pages
...ready sorely distressed people." — " By shutting up the port of Boston, some imagine that the course of trade might be turned hither, and to our benefit...in commerce with that convenient mart. And were it otherwise, we must be dead to every idea of justice, lost to all feelings of humanity, could we indulge... | |
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