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Page 11 - The two principles being established, however, that wealth consisted in gold and silver, and that those metals could be brought into a country which had no mines only by the balance of trade...
Page 59 - ... engloutir. Eh bien ! il faut déjouer le cabinet anglais comme nous avons déjoué Léopold et Frédéric-Guillaume ; il faut le forcer de nous donner une explication précise qui nous tranquillise à jamais, ou tirer l'épée contre les Anglais ; et , croyez-en le génie de la liberté, les matelots français ne le céderont point aux vainqueurs du Brabant, et la mer aura aussi son Jénape (Jemmapes).
Page 230 - Essai sur les causes qui , en 1649, amenèrent en Angleterre l'établissement de la république, sur celles qui devaient l'y consolider, sur celles qui l'y firent périr...
Page 38 - Le Commerce honorable, ou Considérations politiques, contenant les motifs de nécessité, d'honneur et de profit, qui se treuvent à former des compagnies de personnes de toutes conditions pour l'entretien du négoce de mer en France, composé par un habitant de la ville de Nantes [Jean Eon].
Page 9 - The ordinary means, therefore, to increase our wealth and treasure, is by foreign trade, wherein we must ever observe this rule — to sell more to strangers yearly than we consume of theirs in value.
Page 9 - All the nations of Europe seem to strive who shall outwit one another in point of trade ; and they concur in this maxim, That the less they consume of foreign commodities, the better it is for them.
Page 227 - Copies of original Letters from the Army of General Bonaparte in Egypt, intercepted by the Fleet under the command of Admiral Lord Nelson, with an English Translation.
Page 43 - Surat, in words which are often quoted, to 'establish such a politie of civil and military power and create and secure such a large revenue ... as may be the foundation of a large, well-grounded sure English dominion in India for all time to come'.
Page 59 - ... be done conjointly or singly by Austria and Prussia, or any other continental power, with effect against France, excepting they have other aid; "that there never was, nor is, nor ever will be, nor ever can be...
Page 69 - ... in the rivalry for colonial dominion. As early as 1787 Mr. Pitt had written to Lord Cornwallis, then governor general in India, that " in this situation the first struggle will actually be for the dependencies of the Dutch Republic, and if at the outset of a war we could get possession of the Cape and Trincomale, it would go further than anything else to decide the fate of the contest.