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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 130. Saturday, December 28, 1728. To CALEB D'ANVERS, Efp S I R, RAD E is of that general Ufe and Importance to every Country, that whatever relates to it can never be uniea- fonable, nor too often difcufled; efpe- cklly in this Nation, which has fo great a Dependance on it. I am the more encouraged to enter upon this Subject at prefent, when the Tranquil ty of Europe is under Negotiation, and we may reafonably hope, that our Minifters and Politicians will be at Leifure to attend more heartily to Matters of Trade, and the Improvement of our own 'Manufactures and Plantations, which ought not to be efteemed beneath their Care and Study. They will then be convinced, that there is fomething more in the main Springs and Principles of Commerce, than to manage a narrow, felfijb Intrigue, or to procure and promote a Monopoly of any Kind; to encourage the Exportation of Corn, when cheap, and to difcourage it when dear; to raife or fall the Value, Name, or Intereft of Money; to reftrain or prohibit not only the Induilry of his Majefty's Subjects with other Nations, but even with one another. They will find that Theie and many more pretended Encouragements are fo far from being what they are called, that they are generally calculated to promote fome finijlcr Defign; or arife from miftaken Notions of unskilful Men, in Matters of this Nature, and who will not allow thern- felves Time or Opportunity of being better informed, ed, but take them upon truft from Others who confound Effects with Caufes, and Caufes with Effects, and meafure the Trade and Intereft of Great Britain and even of all Europe, according to their own fond Conceptions, or imaginary Notions. Whoever will look into the prefent State of the Bri- tijb Commerce will find that the Ballance runs agajnft us in many Branc...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217581288 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217581285 |
| Weight | 0.75 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.52 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 228 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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