 | Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1807 - 454 trang
...towards taxes and repairs, and other incidental charges attending the same. These are the children, or colonists, or fellow-subjects, or allies, or whatever...act, to have settled any distant colonies at all, whilst there remained an inch of land in Great Britain capable of further cultivation :—Afterwards,... | |
 | Bath and West of England Society - 1814 - 492 trang
...quarrel " we have fpent fo many millions, and fpilt fuch torrents of blood! " In Ihort, and to fum up all at once, I look upon it to have been " a very imprudent act to have fettled any diftant colonies at " all, lukilfl there remained an inch of land in Great-Britain " capable... | |
 | Walter Ernest Clark - 1903 - 286 trang
...Great Britain to the American colonies is expressed in a letter to Lord Kames, in 1 782 : " In short to sum up all at once I look upon it to have been...imprudent act to have settled any distant colonies at all whilst there remained an inch of land in great Britain capable of further cultivation; afterwards to... | |
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In short, and to sum up all at once, I look upon it to have been a very imprudent act, to have settled any distant colonies at all, whilst there remained an inch of land in Great Britain capable of further cultivation... 