 | 1775 - 868 pages
...neceffarily refult from it. It ihall not be longer, if I can help it, than fo feriousa matter requires. Permit me then, Sir, to lead your attention very far back -, back to the aft of navigation ; the corner- (lone of the policy of this country with regard to its colonies. Sir,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1775 - 64 pages
...then, Sir, to lead your attention very far back j back to the aft of navigation ; the corner-ftone of the policy of this country with regard to its colonies....beginning, purely commercial ; and the commercial fyftem was wholly reftrifti ve. It was the fyflem of a monopoly. No trade was let loofe from that conftraint,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 604 pages
...neceffarily refult from it. It mall not be longer, if I can help it, than fo ferious a matter requires. Permit me then, Sir, to lead your attention very far back ; back to the act of navigation ; the corner-ftone of the policy of this country with regard to its colonies. Sir, that policy was, from... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1792 - 608 pages
...necefTarily refult from it. It fhall not be longer, if I can help it, than fo ferioua a matter requires. Permit me, then, Sir, to lead your attention very far back ; back to the Act of Navigation ; the corner-ftone of the policy of this country with regard to its Colonies. Sir, that policy was, from... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 596 pages
...neceflarily refult from it. It fhall not be longer, if I can help it, than fo ferious a matter requires. Permit me then, Sir, to lead your attention very far back; back to the a& of navigation; the corner-ftone of the poKcy of this country with regard to its colonies. Sir, that... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 462 pages
...necefiarily refult from it. It fhall not be longer, if I can help it, than fo ferious a matter requires. Permit me then, Sir, to lead your attention very far back ; back to the act of navigation ; the corner ftone of the policy of this country with regard to its colonies. Sir, that policy was, from... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1806 - 520 pages
...necessarily result from it. It shall not be longer, if I can help it, than so serious a matter requires. Permit me then, Sir, to lead your attention very far back ; back to the act of navigation ; the corner stone of the policy of this country with regard to its colonies. Sir, that policy was, from... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1816 - 540 pages
...necessarily result from it. It shall not be longer, if I can help it, than so serious a matter requires. Permit me then, Sir, to lead your attention very far back; back to the act of navigation; the corner stone of o 4 " the policy of this country with regard to its colonies. Sir, that policy was,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1826 - 510 pages
...then, Sir, to lead your attention very far back ; back to the act of navigation ; the corner stone of the policy of this country, with regard to its...was, from the beginning, purely commercial ; and the com. mercial system was wholly restrictive. It was the system of a monopoly. No trade was let loose... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 976 pages
...necessarily result from it. It shall not be longer, if I can help it, than so serious a matter requires. (1.) Permit me then, sir, to lead your attention very far...regard to its colonies." Sir. that policy was, from the be•• If any man ha« been accustomed to regard Mr. Burke as more of a rhetorician than a reasoncr,... | |
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Sir, that policy was, from the beginning, purely commercial; and the commercial system was wholly restrictive. It was the system of & monopoly. 
