The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer, Volume 44R. Baldwin, 1775 |
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... duty on foreign linens would not make the prices of British linens dearer ? No direct answer was given . A difpute ... duties on foreign linens in the spirit in which they were held as to the real value of the goods , conftruing fome of ...
... duty on foreign linens would not make the prices of British linens dearer ? No direct answer was given . A difpute ... duties on foreign linens in the spirit in which they were held as to the real value of the goods , conftruing fome of ...
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... duties that German linens paid ; he faid there were ten forts under that head , from 5d . to rod . per yard , and the average price was about 7d . per yard ; but , by the fame calcu- lation , they paid a duty of 8d . per yard . Being ...
... duties that German linens paid ; he faid there were ten forts under that head , from 5d . to rod . per yard , and the average price was about 7d . per yard ; but , by the fame calcu- lation , they paid a duty of 8d . per yard . Being ...
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... duty on it , which amounted from 1770 to 1771 , to about 103.ocol . each year , but in 1773 , to only 94,000l . He ... duties were laid upon them , they would be equal to a prohi- bition . The laft witnefs examined was Mr. Kavanagh , a ...
... duty on it , which amounted from 1770 to 1771 , to about 103.ocol . each year , but in 1773 , to only 94,000l . He ... duties were laid upon them , they would be equal to a prohi- bition . The laft witnefs examined was Mr. Kavanagh , a ...
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... duty of every colony in Ame . rica to unite in the most effectual means to obtain a repeal of the late act of parliament for " blocking up the harbour of Bofton . " - Diffentient three . II . That it is the opinion of this meeting ...
... duty of every colony in Ame . rica to unite in the most effectual means to obtain a repeal of the late act of parliament for " blocking up the harbour of Bofton . " - Diffentient three . II . That it is the opinion of this meeting ...
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... duty of every colony in America to unite in the moft fpeedy and effectual means to obtain a repeal of the said act , and alfo of the faid bills if paffed into acts . 3. Refolved , That it is the opinion of this committee , that if the ...
... duty of every colony in America to unite in the moft fpeedy and effectual means to obtain a repeal of the said act , and alfo of the faid bills if paffed into acts . 3. Refolved , That it is the opinion of this committee , that if the ...
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Page 339 - Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know...
Page 131 - I may have leave to lament. For a wise man, he seemed to me at that time to be governed too much by general maxims.
Page 64 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Page 67 - I remember, Sir, with a melancholy pleasure, the situation of the honourable gentleman who made the motion for the repeal ; in that crisis, when the whole trading interest of this empire, crammed into your lobbies, with a trembling and anxious expectation, waited, almost to a winter's return of light, their fate from your resolutions. When at length you had determined in their...
Page 230 - ... plunged into the water, swimming underneath like an otter, only rising to take breath, till he reached the opposite shore. He now ascended the steep bank, but though he had good reason to be in a hurry, as many of the enemy were in the water, and others running...
Page 339 - When I contemplate these things; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that, through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection...
Page 338 - Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
Page 64 - I mean into the business of office ; and the limited and fixed methods and forms established there. Much knowledge is to be had undoubtedly in that line ; and there is no knowledge which is not valuable. But it may be truly said, that men too much conversant in office are rarely minds of remarkable enlargement.
Page 338 - England, the genius should point out to him a little speck, scarce visible in the mass of the national interest, a small seminal principle, rather than a formed body, and should tell him, — ' Young man, there is America — which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth...
Page 420 - But did not chance at length her error mend ? Did no subverted empire mark his end ? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound ? Or hostile millions press him to the ground ? His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.