The Resources of the British Empire: Together with a View of the Probable Result of the Present Contest Between Britain and France |
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... sterling money and debt - capital , 232 - terms of loans in 1806-7-8-9 , 233 --cause of difference between sterling money and debt - capital , 234 - nature of the public funds in Britain , 234 -- aggregate fund , 235 - South - sea fund ...
... sterling money and debt - capital , 232 - terms of loans in 1806-7-8-9 , 233 --cause of difference between sterling money and debt - capital , 234 - nature of the public funds in Britain , 234 -- aggregate fund , 235 - South - sea fund ...
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... sterling of confiscated property ; she has pillaged and broken all her own banks ; she has squeezed the Jews and money - brokers ; she has robbed all the churches of popish Europe ; she has plundered the Dutch , the Swiss , the Italians ...
... sterling of confiscated property ; she has pillaged and broken all her own banks ; she has squeezed the Jews and money - brokers ; she has robbed all the churches of popish Europe ; she has plundered the Dutch , the Swiss , the Italians ...
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... sterling ; and that M. Talleyrand in parti- cular has deposited under several names , in the pub- lic funds of England , more than a million of pounds sterling ; a tolerably decisive proof of the real opinion which this cunning ...
... sterling ; and that M. Talleyrand in parti- cular has deposited under several names , in the pub- lic funds of England , more than a million of pounds sterling ; a tolerably decisive proof of the real opinion which this cunning ...
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... sterling , at a cost of rather less than two per cent . In the taxes there is scarcely any variation , as the pound- age is uniform . To these charges nothing is to be added for defalcations by remittances , or for failure of collectors ...
... sterling , at a cost of rather less than two per cent . In the taxes there is scarcely any variation , as the pound- age is uniform . To these charges nothing is to be added for defalcations by remittances , or for failure of collectors ...
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... sterling that of the most favourable year of war and by ten millions that of any year of peace . And accordingly we learn from " An Account of the net produce paid into the Exchequer of the Duties on Customs for 1807 , 1808 , 1809 , and ...
... sterling that of the most favourable year of war and by ten millions that of any year of peace . And accordingly we learn from " An Account of the net produce paid into the Exchequer of the Duties on Customs for 1807 , 1808 , 1809 , and ...
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5th Jan agriculture amount annual annuities army augmented Austria average balance of trade Bank of England Britain British bullion Buonaparte Buonaparte's capital Carthage cent circulation civil coin commerce conscription consequence continental Europe continue currency debt-capital decrees depreciation despotism destroy diminished dominion effect empire ending 5th January enemy European continent exchange exchequer exchequer-bills expenditure exports extensive foreign France French French empire funded debt gold Great-Britain Holland House of Commons hundred imports income increase industry interest Ireland jacobinism labor land loans London Lord Lord Wellington manufactures ment merchants military millions moral Napoleon national debt nearly paper payments peace peninsula political population Portugal present produce proportion public debt purchase quantity redeemed respecting revenue Russia Scotland sinking fund soldiers Spain Spaniards Spanish sterling talents taxes thousand tion Total trade troops United unredeemed valor Walsh wealth whole wool
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Page 376 - This within certain limits is probably true; and in governments of a monarchical cast patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose; and there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be by force of public opinion to mitigate and assuage...
Page 375 - There is an opinion, that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the Government, and serve to keep alive the spirit of Liberty.
Page 521 - Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death ; which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good ; Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, unutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire.
Page 173 - To provide for us in our necessities is not in the power of *' government. It would be a vain presumption in statesmen to think they can do it. The people maintain them, and not they the people. It is in the power of government to prevent much evil ; it can do very little positive, .good in this, or perhaps in anything else.
Page 174 - I had my chalk to draw any line, was this: that the state ought to confine itself to what regards the state or the creatures of the state : namely, the exterior establishment of its religion ; its magistracy ; its revenue ; its military force by sea and land ; the corporations that owe their existence to its fiat ; in a word, to everything that is truly and properly public, — to the public peace, to the public safety, to the public order, to the public prosperity.
Page 357 - Woe to that country too, that, passing into the opposite extreme, considers a low education, a mean contracted view of things, a sordid, mercenary occupation, as a preferable title to command ! Everything ought to be open; but not indifferently to every man.
Page 357 - I do not hesitate to say, that the road to eminence and power, from obscure condition, ought not to be made too easy, nor a thing too much of course. If rare merit be the rarest of all rare things, it ought to pass through some sort of probation.
Page 356 - There is no qualification for government but virtue and wisdom, actual or presumptive. Wherever they are actually found, they have, in whatever state, condition, profession or trade, the passport of Heaven to human place and honour.
Page 358 - It is said, that twenty-four millions ought to prevail over two hundred thousand. True; if the constitution of a kingdom be a problem of arithmetic. This sort of discourse does well enough with the lamp-post for its second: to men who may reason calmly, it is ridiculous.
Page 1 - Hints on the National Bankruptcy of Britain, and on her resources to maintain the present contest with France...