The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 1John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1929 - Commonwealth countries |
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... century . There was instead an age of exploration and knight errantry prior to and quite distinct from the age of ... eighteenth century , down to the time when the old thirteen colonies parted company with the motherland , for ...
... century . There was instead an age of exploration and knight errantry prior to and quite distinct from the age of ... eighteenth century , down to the time when the old thirteen colonies parted company with the motherland , for ...
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... century shaped and coloured the old Em- pire . By the encouragement which it had given to , or rather by the ... eighteenth century it came from France . Throughout a large part of the seventeenth century the main source of danger ...
... century shaped and coloured the old Em- pire . By the encouragement which it had given to , or rather by the ... eighteenth century it came from France . Throughout a large part of the seventeenth century the main source of danger ...
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... century made way for the eighteenth with the opening of the first great war that was almost as important in the colonial as in the European sphere . Marlborough's victories brought , under the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht , great ...
... century made way for the eighteenth with the opening of the first great war that was almost as important in the colonial as in the European sphere . Marlborough's victories brought , under the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht , great ...
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... eighteenth century resembled the sixteenth rather than the seventeenth , but a stronger Britain was pitted against a weaker Spain . Against both Spain and France the mid - century foreign war , the Seven Years ' War , was for Great ...
... eighteenth century resembled the sixteenth rather than the seventeenth , but a stronger Britain was pitted against a weaker Spain . Against both Spain and France the mid - century foreign war , the Seven Years ' War , was for Great ...
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... eighteenth century saw the reign of sugar ; the reign of cotton was yet to come . Though , as the century grew older , the riches which flowed from India into Britain grew rapidly in volume , yet almost to the end the West Indies bulked ...
... eighteenth century saw the reign of sugar ; the reign of cotton was yet to come . Though , as the century grew older , the riches which flowed from India into Britain grew rapidly in volume , yet almost to the end the West Indies bulked ...
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Popular passages
Page 660 - let the sovereign authority of this country be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever; that we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever—except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Page 97 - no kind of traffic Would I admit, no name of magistrate, Letters should not be known, riches, poverty, And use of service, none; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none: • *•*•• • All things in common Nature should produce Without sweat or
Page 658 - and with the advice and consent of Parliament, had, hath, and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonys...
Page 190 - should be regulated as between themselves. The principle was that the discovery gave title to the Government by whose subjects or by whose authority it was made, against all other European Governments, which title might be consummated by possession.
Page 777 - by a line drawn due north from its source to the highlands, "which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the River St Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean". The
Page 329 - The fruits of Portugal are corrected by the products of Barbados, the infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian cane.. . . The single dress of a woman of quality is often the product of a hundred climates..
Page 536 - with the consent of the natives to take possession of convenient situations in the country in the name of the King of Great Britain; or, if you find the country uninhabited, take possession for His Majesty by setting up proper marks and inscriptions, as first discoverers and possessors".
Page 181 - For that their [the Spaniards'] having touched only here and there upon a coast, and given names to a few rivers or capes, were such insignificant things as could in no ways entitle them to a propriety further than in the parts where they actually settled and continued to inhabit.
Page 149 - The Council established at Plymouth in the County of Devon for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America", which
Page 154 - In these hard and difficult beginnings they found some discontents and murmurings arise amongst some, and mutinous speeches and carriage in others; but they were soon quelled and overcome by the wisdom, patience and just and equal carriage of things by the governor and better part which clave faithfully together in the main.