Eastern Problems at the Close of the Eighteenth Century

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The University Press, 1901 - 277 strán (strany)
 

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Strana 11 - ... that wealth consisted in gold and silver, and that those metals could be brought into a country which had no mines only by the balance of trade, or by exporting to a greater value than it imported, it necessarily became the great object of political economy to diminish as much as possible the importation of foreign goods for home consumption, and to increase as much as possible the exportation of the produce of domestic industry. Its two great engines for enriching the country, therefore, were...
Strana 208 - You have already been informed of my arrival on the borders of the Red Sea, with an innumerable and invincible army, full of the desire of relieving you from the iron yoke of England.
Strana 270 - A Descriptive Catalogue of the Oriental Library of the Late Tippoo Sultan of Mysore.
Strana 11 - The two principles being established, however, that wealth consisted in gold and silver, and that those metals could be brought into a country which had no mines only by the balance of trade...
Strana 59 - ... engloutir. Eh bien ! il faut déjouer le cabinet anglais comme nous avons déjoué Léopold et Frédéric-Guillaume ; il faut le forcer de nous donner une explication précise qui nous tranquillise à jamais, ou tirer l'épée contre les Anglais ; et , croyez-en le génie de la liberté, les matelots français ne le céderont point aux vainqueurs du Brabant, et la mer aura aussi son Jénape (Jemmapes).
Strana 238 - Essai sur les causes qui , en 1649, amenèrent en Angleterre l'établissement de la république, sur celles qui devaient l'y consolider, sur celles qui l'y firent périr...
Strana 9 - The ordinary means, therefore, to increase our wealth and treasure, is by foreign trade, wherein we must ever observe this rule — to sell more to strangers yearly than we consume of theirs in value.
Strana 9 - All the nations of Europe seem to strive who shall outwit one another in point of trade ; and they concur in this maxim, That the less they consume of foreign commodities, the better it is for them.
Strana 235 - Copies of original Letters from the Army of General Bonaparte in Egypt, intercepted by the Fleet under the command of Admiral Lord Nelson, with an English Translation.
Strana 59 - ... be done conjointly or singly by Austria and Prussia, or any other continental power, with effect against France, excepting they have other aid; "that there never was, nor is, nor ever will be, nor ever can be...

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