 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...life, but they seem to me rather ancient nations grown to perfection through a long series of fortunate events, and a train of successful industry, accumulating...three thousand miles from all civilized intercourse. All this was done by England, whilst England pursued trade, and forgot revenue. You not only acquired... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 522 pages
...life, but they seem to me rather antient nations grown to perfection through a long series of fortunate events, and a train of successful industry, accumulating...three thousand miles from all civilized intercourse. All this was done by England, whilst England pursued trade, and forgot revenue. You not only acquired... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 520 pages
...me rather antient nations grown to perfection through a long series of fortunate events, and a traia of successful industry, accumulating wealth in many...three thousand miles from all civilized intercourse. All this was done by England, whilst England pursued trade, and forgot revenue. You not only acquired... | |
 | Oratory - 1808 - 546 pages
...but they seem to me rather ancient nations, grown to per. fection through a long series of fortunate events, and a train of successful industry, accumulating...three thousand miles from all civilized intercourse. All this was done by England, whilft England pursued trade, and forgot revenue. You not Only acquired... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 512 pages
...life, but they seem to me rather ancient nations grown to perfection through a long series of fortunate events, and a train of successful industry, accumulating...the colonies of yesterday ; than a set of miserable out casts, a few years ago, not so much sent as thrown out, on the bleak and barren shore of a desolate... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 518 pages
...life, but they seem to me rather ancient nations grown to perfection through a long series of fortunate events, and a train of successful industry, accumulating...the colonies of yesterday ; than a set of miserable out casts, a few years ago, not so much sent as thrown out, on the bleak and barren shore of a desolate... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1816 - 540 pages
...life, but they seem to me rather antient nations grown to perfection through a long series of fortunate events, and a train of successful industry, accumulating...three thousand miles from all civilized intercourse. All this was done by England, whilst England pursued trade and forgot revenue. You not only acquired... | |
 | Robert Walsh - Public opinion Great Britain - 1819 - 574 pages
...life, but they seem to me rather antient nations grown to perfection through a long series of fortunate events, and a train of successful industry, accumulating...three thousand miles from all civilized intercourse."* 2. It is conceded by the historians of every party, that as far as the mother country was able, in... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 744 pages
...Ьгtunate events, and a train of successful industrv. accumulating wealth in many centuries, than thi colonies of yesterday ; than a set of miserable outcasts,...three thousand miles from all civilized intercourse. All this was done by England, whilst Eniilan'i pursued trade, and forgot revenue. You not only acquired... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 648 pages
...life, but they seem to me rather ancient nations grown to perfection through a long series of fortunate de. the purpose of revenue, and with the ordinary thrown out, on the bleak and barren shore of title and... | |
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Nothing in the history of mankind is like their progress. For my part, I never cast an eye on their flourishing commerce, and their cultivated and commodious life, but they seem to me rather ancient nations grown to perfection through a long series of... 
