 | Richard Burdon Haldane Haldane (Viscount) - 1887 - 182 pages
...of the colony trade, it has been shown, are, to the great body of the people, mere loss instead of profit. It is surely now time that our rulers should...provinces in time of war, and of supporting any part of their civil or military establishments in time of peace, and endeavour to accommodate her future views... | |
 | Richard Burdon Haldane Haldane (Viscount) - 1887 - 196 pages
...themselves, and endeavour to awaken the people. If the project cannot be completed, it ought to be given tip. If any of the provinces of the British Empire cannot...provinces in time of war, and of supporting any part of their civil or military establishments in time of peace, and endeavour to accommodate her future views... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1887 - 618 pages
...they should awake from it themselves, and endeavour to awaken the people. If the project cannot he completed, it ought to be given up. If any of the...time that Great Britain should free herself from the expence of defending those provinces in time of war, and of supporting any part of their civil or military... | |
 | William Lucas Sargant - 1887 - 426 pages
...hundred years ago (in 1776) Adam Smith ended the first edition of his great work with the words : — " If any of the provinces of the British Empire cannot...empire, it is surely time that Great Britain should . . . endeavour to accommodate her future views and designs to the real mediocrity of her circumstances."... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1889 - 412 pages
...without augmenting the area of its resources ; ' — that, and this is the final sentence of the book, ' If any of the provinces of the British empire cannot...provinces in time of war, and of supporting any part of their civil or military establishments in time of peace, and endeavour to accommodate her future views... | |
 | 1891 - 790 pages
...indulging themselves, perhaps, as well as other people, or that they should awaken from it themselves. If the project cannot be completed it ought to be...provinces in time of war, and of supporting any part of their civil or military establishments in time of peace, and endeavour to accommodate her future views... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1891 - 466 pages
...empire . . . without once augmenting its resources;"! that (and this is the final sentence of the book) "If any of the provinces of the British empire cannot...provinces in time of war, and of supporting any part of their civil or military establishments in time of peace, and endeavor to accommodate her future views... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1891 - 466 pages
...of the provinces of the British empire cannot be made to contribute towards the support of the whqle empire, it is surely time that Great Britain should...provinces in time of war, and of supporting any part of their civil or military establishments in time of peace, and endeavor to accommodate her future views... | |
 | John Rae - 1895 - 484 pages
...of Nations. " Perish uncontributing colonies " is the very pith of the lasT sentence of that work. " If any of the provinces of the British Empire cannot...provinces in time of war and of supporting any part bf their civil or military establishments in time of peace ; and endeavour to accommodate her future... | |
 | SIR GEORGE CORNEWALL LEWIS, BART. - 1901 - 448 pages
...of the empire. ... If any of the provinces of the British Empire cannot be made to contribute toward the support of the whole empire, it is surely time...provinces in time of war, and of supporting any part of their civil or military establishments in time of peace." It cannot, however, be laid down generally,... | |
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If any of the provinces of the British empire cannot be made to contribute towards the support of the whole empire, it is surely time that Great Britain should free herself from the expense of defending those provinces in time of war, and of supporting... 
