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Page vii
... England and America is almost wholly derived from Burke's own pages . Payne's otherwise excellent edition seems to me to suffer from the defect just indicated ; yet I cannot refrain from acknowledging my indebtedness to him in several ...
... England and America is almost wholly derived from Burke's own pages . Payne's otherwise excellent edition seems to me to suffer from the defect just indicated ; yet I cannot refrain from acknowledging my indebtedness to him in several ...
Page xii
... England to be an island . The operations of the Royal African Company , which had been first formed in 1618 , reconstituted in 1631 , and again in 1663 , and which acquired wealth by the trade in slaves , were at the same time promoted ...
... England to be an island . The operations of the Royal African Company , which had been first formed in 1618 , reconstituted in 1631 , and again in 1663 , and which acquired wealth by the trade in slaves , were at the same time promoted ...
Page xi
... England to be shipped only in American or English vessels . After the Restoration , a second Naviga- tion Act , in 1660 , ordered that most of the exports from the colonies should be shipped only to England or to an English colony , and ...
... England to be shipped only in American or English vessels . After the Restoration , a second Naviga- tion Act , in 1660 , ordered that most of the exports from the colonies should be shipped only to England or to an English colony , and ...
Page xii
... England to be an island . The operations of the Royal African Company , which had been first formed in 1618 , reconstituted in 1631 , and again in 1663 , and which acquired wealth by the trade in slaves , were at the same time promoted ...
... England to be an island . The operations of the Royal African Company , which had been first formed in 1618 , reconstituted in 1631 , and again in 1663 , and which acquired wealth by the trade in slaves , were at the same time promoted ...
Page xiii
... England , upon busi- ness documents and newspapers . This disregard of American feeling not only gave new force to the growing discontent , but provoked the organizing of re- sistance . Massachusetts proposed a Colonial Congress at New ...
... England , upon busi- ness documents and newspapers . This disregard of American feeling not only gave new force to the growing discontent , but provoked the organizing of re- sistance . Massachusetts proposed a Colonial Congress at New ...
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