The Political State of the British Empire: Containing a General View of the Domestic and Foreign Possessions of the Crown; the Laws, Commerce, Revenues, Offices, and Other Establishments, Civil and Military, Volume 3T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1818 - Great Britain |
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... Canals and Railways An alphabetical enumeration of canals and railways in the United Kingdom 270 272 273 274 277 280 282 283 284 286 ib . ib . 299 INSURANCE Fire Benefits 368 ib . ib . Offices Eftimate of infurable property Lives TRADE ...
... Canals and Railways An alphabetical enumeration of canals and railways in the United Kingdom 270 272 273 274 277 280 282 283 284 286 ib . ib . 299 INSURANCE Fire Benefits 368 ib . ib . Offices Eftimate of infurable property Lives TRADE ...
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... taken , but likewife thofe of commercial operation and political economy , as the ftructure of roads and forms of vehicles , the establishment of canals , the improve- ment ment of rivers , harbours , and coafts , the 122 LEARNING ;
... taken , but likewife thofe of commercial operation and political economy , as the ftructure of roads and forms of vehicles , the establishment of canals , the improve- ment ment of rivers , harbours , and coafts , the 122 LEARNING ;
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... canals that are carrying on , muft in a few years produce great changes . When we look at the past , we may anticipate the future . The rife of Petersburg , the general increafe of commerce , and the vaft augmentation of power ; the ...
... canals that are carrying on , muft in a few years produce great changes . When we look at the past , we may anticipate the future . The rife of Petersburg , the general increafe of commerce , and the vaft augmentation of power ; the ...
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... canal about eighteen miles weft from Dublin . In 1782 the government of Ireland , understanding that fome of the manufacturers of Manchester intended to remove to Ameri- ca , and carry their machinery with them , found means to per ...
... canal about eighteen miles weft from Dublin . In 1782 the government of Ireland , understanding that fome of the manufacturers of Manchester intended to remove to Ameri- ca , and carry their machinery with them , found means to per ...
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... canal barges , but also to veffels belonging to the Newfoundland fishery during the months that they used to be laid up idle . Vaft numbers are alfo employed in carrying the goods , when manufactured , to every part of Great Britain for ...
... canal barges , but also to veffels belonging to the Newfoundland fishery during the months that they used to be laid up idle . Vaft numbers are alfo employed in carrying the goods , when manufactured , to every part of Great Britain for ...
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Page 200 - ... surprisals, takings at sea, arrests, restraints, and detainments of all kings, princes, and people, of what nation, condition, or quality soever...
Page 200 - ... arrests, restraints, and detainments of all kings, princes, and people, of what nation, condition, or quality soever, barratry of the master and mariners, and of all other perils, losses, and misfortunes, that have or shall come to the hurt, detriment, or damage of the said goods and merchandises, and ship, &c., or any part thereof.
Page 168 - As defence, however, is of much more importance than opulence, the act of navigation is, perhaps, the wisest of all the commercial regulations of England.
Page 170 - The monopoly of the colony trade, therefore, so far as it has turned towards that trade a greater proportion of the capital of Great Britain than what would...
Page 142 - If this capital is divided between two different grocers, their competition will tend to make both of them sell cheaper than if it were in the hands of one only ; and if it were divided among twenty, their competition would be just so much the greater, and the chance of their combining together in order to raise the price just so much the less.
Page 142 - He is thereby enabled to employ almost his whole stock as a capital. He is thus enabled to furnish work to a greater value ; and the profit which he makes by it in this way much more than compensates the additional price which the profit of the retailer imposes upon the goods.
Page 33 - The Hall is by far the moft magnificent room of the kind in Oxford, and perhaps one of the largeft in the kingdom. The roof is framed of timber, curioufly wrought, and fo contrived as to produce a very grand and noble effect.
Page 397 - ... his own debts, it is his misfortune and not his fault. To the misfortunes, therefore, of debtors, the law has given a compassionate remedy...
Page 168 - The act of navigation is not favourable to foreign commerce, or to the growth of that opulence which can arise from it. The interest of a nation in its commercial relations to foreign nations is, like that of a merchant with regard to the different people with whom he deals, to buy as cheap and to sell as dear as possible.
Page 276 - Good roads, canals, and navigable rivers, by diminishing the expense of carriage, put the remote parts of the country more nearly upon a level with those in the neighbourhood of the town. They are upon that account the greatest of all improvements.