 | William Henry Ricketts Curtler - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1909 - 404 pages
...Progress of the Nation, p. 151. to rise in value. Porter stated that the United Kingdom could never be habitually dependent on the soil of other countries for the food of its people, there was not enough shipping to transport it if it could.1 Caird prophesied that in the next... | |
 | J. H. CLAPHAM, LITT.D. - 1921 - 442 pages
...inconsiderable state...," GR Porter wrote so late as 1851, "may exist under circumstances which oblige it to be habitually dependent on the soil of other countries for the food of its inhabitants; but...a very simple calculation would suffice to convince us that this can never be the case with a... | |
 | 1928 - 442 pages
...inconsiderable state...," GR Porter wrote so late as 1851, "may exist under circumstances which oblige it to be habitually dependent on the soil of other countries for the food of its inhabitants; but... a very simple calculation would suffice to convince us that this can never be the case with... | |
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No large or considerable kingdom or country will ever be habitually dependent on the soil of other countries for the food of its inhabitants. 