Exports and Imports: As Showing the Relative Advancement of Every Nation in Wealth, Strength, and Independence1859 - Balance of trade - 30 pages |
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Page 10 - On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Page 10 - Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the Sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the Earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Page 14 - Sir Robert Peel, with equal honesty, is said 'to have remarked that, " aa an Englishman, he was in favor of free trade, but that he could not speak in favor of that doctrine were he an American.
Page 15 - formally" to "reject the principle of free trade, as incompatible with the independence and security of a great nation, and as destructive of her noblest manufactures.
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Page 14 - Napoleon," says Mr. List, in his chapter on France, " was the signal for English competition, restrained during his rule to the work of smuggling, to assert and regain its power upon the Continents of Europe and America. For the first time, the English were then heard to denounce the protective system, and to extol Adam Smith's theory of free trade, a theory which those practical islanders had hitherto branded as Utopian.
Page 9 - Give me some drink, Titinius" — As a sick girl. Ye gods, it doth amaze me, A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of this majestic world, And bear the palm alone.
Page 13 - ... exclusive possession of their own markets, and by the abolition of feudal impediments, enjoyed under the empire a prosperity greater than under any former dynasty. The same remark has been made with regard to Germany, and to the other countries subject to the restrictions of the continental system. In his peremptory style, Napoleon had said, that a country which, in the actual state of the world, should attempt to carry out the principle of free trade, would be ground to dust.* By this he evinced...
Page 28 - ... reduce the value of labor with us, to an equality with that of Europe. The following are the changes in the price of the article first manufactured at Waltham. 1816, 30 cents per yard.
Page 14 - France, though her old dynasty had been' brought back to her under the banner, or at least by the gold of England, listened but a short time to these arguments. Free trade with England occasioned such dreadful disasters to an industry which had grown up under the continental system, that it became necessary to seek a speedy refuge in the prohibitive system, under the shield of which, according to the testimony of M. Dupin, the manufacturing industry of France doubled between 1815 and 1827.