 | Herbert Woodfield Paul - 1904 - 480 sivua
...opulence which can arise from it," adds that, "as defence is of much more importance than opulence, IMS. the act of navigation is, perhaps, the wisest of all the commercial regulations of England." i The praise was faint, but such as it was it was undeserved. The great defensive force of the British... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 484 sivua
...but to sell our own cheaper, than if there was a more perfect freedom of trade. As defense, however, is of much more importance than opulence, the Act of Navigation is, perhaps, the wisest of all commercial regulations of England. The second case, in which it will generally be advantageous to lay... | |
 | Joseph Shield Nicholson - 1909 - 324 sivua
...but to sell our own cheaper than if there was a more perfect freedom of trade. As defence, however, is of much more importance than opulence, the Act...wisest of all the commercial regulations of England." Attempts have often been made in the interests of popular ideas of unrestricted free trade to take... | |
 | Alfred Peter Hillier - 1909 - 184 sivua
...foreign commerce or to the growth of that opulence which can arise from it." . . . " As defence, however, is of much more importance than opulence, the Act...wisest of all the commercial regulations of England." The counsel here given recalls in a forcible manner the observation addressed by Solon to Croesus:... | |
 | Joseph Shield Nicholson - 1909 - 328 sivua
...but to sell our own cheaper than if there was a more perfect freedom of trade. As defence, however, is of much more importance than opulence, the Act...wisest of all the commercial regulations of England." Attempts have often been made in the interests of popular ideas of unrestricted free trade to take... | |
 | Hannis Taylor - 1911 - 738 sivua
...Act is not favorable to foreign commerce, nor to the opulence which can arise from that ; but defense is of much more importance than opulence. The Act...perhaps the wisest of all the commercial regulations of England."1 A great thinker of our own has said that "the Captain ninth of October, 1651, is the date... | |
 | Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas - 1912 - 206 sivua
...the Navigation Acts, which especially embodied the old mercantile system. 'As defence', he writes, 'is of much more importance than opulence, the act...wisest of all the commercial regulations of England.' l It may be pointed out again that if, as has been contended in a previous chapter, the family analogy... | |
 | John Barnard Byles - 1912 - 304 sivua
...are as wise, however, as if they had all been dictated by the most deliberate wisdom." And again : "As defence is of much more importance than opulence, THE ACT OF NAVIGATION IS PERHAPS THE WISEST OP ALL THE COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS OF ENGLAND." * The eminent success of this policy vindicated it in... | |
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As defence, however, is of much more importance than opulence, the act of navigation is, perhaps, the wisest of all the commercial regulations of England. 
