 | Books - 1780 - 592 pages
...of parliament which excludes us from having any commerce with any nation in Europe but our own ; fo that we cannot add to our plantation any commodity that grows out of it ; as olive-trees, cotton, or vines : befides this, we cannot procure any fltilful men for our now hopeful... | |
 | John Reeves - Great Britain - 1792 - 648 pages
...PART II. V > I». CAR. II. TO AD I7*3. PLANTATION ». 'f with any nation in Europe but our own, " fo that we cannot add to our plantation " any commodity that grows out of it, as " olive-trees, cotton, or vines: befidesthis, '' we cannot procure any flulful men for " our own hopeful... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1810 - 446 pages
...government ? Answer. Mighty and destructive, by that severe act of Parliament, which excludes us the having any commerce with any nation in Europe, but...Besides this, we cannot procure any skilful men for one now hopeful commodity, silk — for it is not lawful for us to carry a pipe slave, or a barrel... | |
 | Virginia, William Waller Hening - Law - 1810 - 616 pages
...Answer. Mighty and destructive, by that severe act R'»'.rictioniof of parliament which excludes us the having any commerce with any nation in Europe but...cotton or vines. Besides this, we cannot procure any skilfull men for one now hope lull commodity, silk ; for it is not lawfull for us Highly inju. to carry... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1810 - 874 pages
...government ? Answer. Mighty and destructive, by that severe »ct of Parliament, which excludes us the having any commerce with any nation in Europe, but...plantation any commodity that grows out of it, as olift trees, cotton or vines. Besides this, we cannot procure anr skilful men for one now hopeful commodity,... | |
 | Timothy Pitkin - United States - 1828 - 544 pages
...from the lords of the committee of the planta. tions, concerning the trade of that colony, says, " mighty and destructive have been the obstructions...grows out of it, as olive trees, cotton or vines." " If this was for his majesty's service," he subjoined, " or the good of the subject, we should not... | |
 | Abiel Holmes - America - 1829 - 614 pages
...parliament [See AD 1663.] Berkeley ascribes the impediments to the growth and prosperity of the colony. " Mighty and destructive have been the obstructions...plantation any commodity that grows out of it ; as olive-trees, cotton, or vines : Besides this, we cannot procure any skilful men for our own now hopeful... | |
 | Edmund Ruffin - Agriculture - 1839 - 830 pages
...government? Answer. Mighty and destructive, by that severe act of parliament which excludes us the having any commerce with any nation in Europe but...Besides this, we cannot procure any skilful! men for one now hopeful! commodity, silk ; lor it is not lawful! for us to carry a pipe slave, or a barrel... | |
 | William Maxwell - Virginia - 1850 - 506 pages
...government? Jlnswer. Mighty and destructive, by that severe act of parliament which excludes us the having any commerce with any nation in Europe but...cotton or vines. Besides this, we cannot procure any skilfull men for one now hopefull commodity, silk ; for it is not lawfull for us to carry a pipe stave,... | |
 | William Maxwell - Virginia - 1850 - 502 pages
...government? Jlnswer. Mighty and destructive, by that severe act of parliament which excludes us the having any commerce with any nation in Europe but...cotton or vines. Besides this, we cannot procure any skilfull men for one now hopefull commodity, silk ; for it is not lawfull for us to carry a pipe stave,... | |
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Mighty and destructive, by that severe act of parliament which excludes us the having any commerce with any nation in Europe but our own, so that we cannot add to our plantation any commodity that grows out of it, as olive trees, cotton or vines. 
