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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... established or tolerated by the colonists , under the conditions of the seventeenth century it was out of the question . To the right appreciation of the Empire a clear understanding of its first century is essential . An island people ...
... established or tolerated by the colonists , under the conditions of the seventeenth century it was out of the question . To the right appreciation of the Empire a clear understanding of its first century is essential . An island people ...
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... established himself on the soil of Europe , and in the course of the century had taken Constantinople and made himself a sea power , and was now reducing Venice to a state of dependence and threatening to close the old Levant routes to ...
... established himself on the soil of Europe , and in the course of the century had taken Constantinople and made himself a sea power , and was now reducing Venice to a state of dependence and threatening to close the old Levant routes to ...
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... established is that he sailed and had not returned as late as October , but that probably , although not certainly , he came home at a subsequent date . It is , however , possible to say that the voyage was a disappoint- ment - in ...
... established is that he sailed and had not returned as late as October , but that probably , although not certainly , he came home at a subsequent date . It is , however , possible to say that the voyage was a disappoint- ment - in ...
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... established by that date . Such , in outline , was the English contribution to the oceanic dis- coveries of the great age . It was not a very brilliant effort , and , had it stood alone , might have made no great difference to the ...
... established by that date . Such , in outline , was the English contribution to the oceanic dis- coveries of the great age . It was not a very brilliant effort , and , had it stood alone , might have made no great difference to the ...
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... established , and became the especial business of a particular set of London mer- chants.2 They maintained resident factors in the country , and were on excellent terms with the Sultan of Morocco . Sugar was at first the principal ...
... established , and became the especial business of a particular set of London mer- chants.2 They maintained resident factors in the country , and were on excellent terms with the Sultan of Morocco . Sugar was at first the principal ...
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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.