A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies. Translated from the French of the Abbé Raynal, by J. Justamond, ...T. Cadell, 1777 |
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Strona 179 - They therefore knew nothing of paper currency, which was so common throughout the rest of North America. Even the small quantity of specie which had stolen into the colony, did not promote that circulation, which is the greatest advantage that can be derived from it.
Strona 179 - Their ordinary drink was beer and cider, to which they sometimes added rum. Their usual clothing was in general the produce of their own flax, or the fleeces of their own sheep ; with these they made common linens and coarse cloths. If any of them had...
Strona 180 - Real misery was wholly unknown, and benevolence anticipated the demands of poverty.* Every misfortune was relieved as it were before it could be felt, without ostentation on the one hand, and without meanness on the other. It was, in short, a society of brethren ; every individual of which was equally ready to give, and to receive, what he thought the common right of mankind.
Strona 124 - Kamtfchatka that the inhabitants of the old world muft have gone over to the new, as it is by thofe two countries that the two continents are connected, or at Icaft approach neareft to one another.
Strona 63 - There appeared in both sexes a greater degree of devotion than virtue, more religion than probity, a higher sense of honour than real honesty.
Strona 82 - Their indignation againft thefe rapacious extortioners rofe to fuch a height, that they defpifed all authority. They had lived in an open rebellion for fix months, when the Britifh appeared before the place.
Strona 239 - German, who. weary of the world, retired to an agreeable solitude, within sixty miles of Philadelphia, for the more free exercise of religious contemplation. Curiosity attracted followers, and his simple and engaging manners made them proselytes. They soon settled a little colony, called...
Strona 124 - Population will indeed fpread from north to fouth, but it muft naturally have begun under the equator, where life is cherifhed by warmth. If the people of America could not come from our continent, and yet appear to be a new race, we muft have recourfe to the flood, which is the fource and the folution of all difficulties in the hiftory of nations.
Strona 184 - Spain has rather chofen to make a wildernefs of her own country, and a grave of America, than to divide its riches with any other of the European nations. The Dutch have been guilty of every public and private crime to deprive other commercial nations of the fpice trade. They have frequently thrown whole cargoes into the fea, rather than they would fell them at a low price. France rather chofe to give up Louiiianii to the Spaniards., than to let it fall into the hands of the Englifh; and England...
Strona 178 - No magistrate was ever appointed to rule over them, and they were never acquainted with the laws of England. No rents or taxes of any kind were ever exacted from them. Their new sovereign seemed to have forgotten them, and they were equally strangers to him.