Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain, During the Years 1810 and 1811, Tom 2J. Ballantyne and Company, 1817 - 530 |
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Strona 421 - Wjlkes, a few years before. In a time of profound peace, the restless spirits of men, deprived of other objects of public curiosity, seized with avidity on those questions which were then agitated with so much violence in England, touching the rights of the people, and of the government, and the nature of power. The end of the political drama was in favour of what was called, and in some respect was, the liberty of the people.
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Strona 238 - Turkey it obliges the sultan to permit the extortion of the bashas and governors of provinces, from whom he afterwards squeezes presents or takes forfeitures : In England, it engaged the queen to erect monopolies, and grant patents for exclusive trade : An invention so pernicious, that had she gone on during a tract of years at her own rate, England, the seat of riches, and arts, and commerce, would have contained at present as little industry as Morocco, or the coast of Barbary.
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