...authority over her colonies, and leave them to elect their own magistrates, to enact their own laws, and to make peace and war as they might think proper,...never will be adopted, by any nation in the world. No nation ever voluntarily 5 gave up the dominion of any province, how troublesome soever it might...

...authority over her Colonies, and leave them to elect their own magistrates, to enact their own laws, and to make peace and war, as they might think proper,...never will be adopted by any nation in the world. No nation ever voluntarily gave up the dominion of any province, how troublesome soever it might be...

...authority over her Colonies, and leave them to elect their own magistrates, to enact their own laws, would be to propose such a measure as never was and...never will be adopted by any nation in the world." No doubt it needed more than human foresight to look beyond the American revolt, and to see the outlines...

...sins. ' To propose that Great Britain should voluntarily give up all authority over her colonies was to propose such a measure as never was and never will be adopted by any nation in the world': so wrote Adam Smith during the American War. Yet the history of the British Empire has now for many...

...loss.' ' To propose that Great Britain should voluntarily give up all authority over her colonies was to propose such a measure as never was and never will be adopted by any nation in the world.1 If it was adopted, however, Great Britain would not only be immediately freed from the whole...

...loss.' ' To propose that Great Britain should voluntarily give up all authority over her colonies was to propose such a measure as never was and never will be adopted by any nation in the world.1 If it was adopted, however, Great Britain would not only be immediately freed from the whole...