 | Adam Smith - 1786 - 538 pages
...but lofs from the dominion which Ihe affumes over her colonies. To propofe that Great Britain fhould voluntarily give up all authority over her colonies, and leave them to elect their own magiftrates, to enact their own laws, and to make peace and war as they might think proper, would be... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1789 - 550 pages
...but lofs from the dominion which fhe afTumes over her colonies. To propofe that Great Britain fhould voluntarily give up all authority over her colonies, and leave them to eleft their own magiftrates, to enacl their own laws, and to make peace and war as they might think... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1811 - 852 pages
...but lofs from the dominion which (he affumes over her colonies. To propofe that Great Britain mould voluntarily give up all authority over her colonies,...peace and war as they might think proper, would be to propofe fuch a meafure as never was, and never will be adopted, by any nation in the world. No nation... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1811 - 544 pages
...but lofs from the dominion which fhe affumes over her colonies. . To propofe that Great Britain mould voluntarily give up all authority over her colonies, and leave them to elect their own magiftrates, to enact their own laws, and to make peace and war as they might think proper, would be... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1836 - 538 pages
...nothing but Ibss froth' the dominion which she assumes over her cblo'nies: To propose that Great Britain should voluntarily give up all authority over her...own magistrates, to enact 'their own laws, and to mal<e peace and war as they might thlnfc proper, would be to propose such' a measure as never was,... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1838 - 476 pages
...cc'.o nies, and leave them to elect their own n\agistrates, to enact their own laws, and to make pence and war, as they might think proper, would be to propose such л measure as never was, and never will be, adopted by any nation in the world. No nation cvtr voluntarily... | |
 | 1846 - 674 pages
...the retention of dependencies. ' To propose,' said Adam Smith seventy years ago, ' that Great Britain should voluntarily give up all authority over her...make peace and war, as they might think proper, would he to propose such a measure as never was, and never will be, adopted by any nation in the world. No... | |
 | Sir Sydney Smith Bell - 1859 - 522 pages
...enthusiasist," as Smith said, "would scarce be capable of proposing such a measure as that Great Britain should voluntarily give up all authority over her...to make peace and war as they might think proper, with any hopes at least of its ever being adopted." But, now that we have thrown open the trade of... | |
 | Sir Sydney Smith Bell - 1859 - 520 pages
...the words of Smith, we cannot " voluntarily give up all authority over our colonies, and leave them to enact their own laws, and to make peace and war, as they might think proper;" — if we are still, as to all of them, to give them governors of our selection ; — if we are still,... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1860 - 490 pages
...he pointed out the vast immediate and continuing advantages which Great Britain would derive, if she "should voluntarily give up all authority over her...to make peace and war as they might think proper." Josiah Tucker, an English royalist writer on political economy, had studied perseveringly the laws... | |
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To propose that Great Britain should voluntarily give up all 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... 
