 | Karl Knies - Economics - 1853 - 386 pages
...bte 2Jîitwerbung be« 2íu«(anbe« befürwortet, fann аиф поф more importance than opulence, the act of navigation is perhaps the wisest of all the commercial regulations of England.« ein jweiteé — шф1 ófonomtfcfyeé — ©ut alé bao Grrgebniu ifjreé rotrtf)» Гфо[«1феп... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1854 - 730 pages
...(since altered.) When war is declared, the King, by proclamation, shall permit merchant vessels. &c., to be sailed differently from the navigation laws....regulations of England. " If the wisdom of any scheme of pol' icy is to be measured by its effects and conse' quences, our navigation system is entitled to... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1854 - 724 pages
...ñipóse burdens on foreign to encourage domestic ndustry ; that the act of navigation is, perhaps, [he wisest of all the commercial regulations of England. " If the wisdom of any scheme of pol1 icy is to be measured by its effects and conse1 quences, our navigation system is entitled to... | |
 | John Frederick Smith - Great Britain - 1863 - 648 pages
...growth of that opulence that can arise from it, remarking, " As defence is of more value than opulence, the Act of Navigation is perhaps the wisest of all the commercial regulations of England." But had Adam Smith lived in our time, he would have seen that the utmost freedom of commerce with foreign... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - Hartwell (Buckinghamshire, England) - 1864 - 370 pages
...and economic science, observes — " 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." Yet it has been allowed to pass away ! At the present time it is useless to inveigh against the Act... | |
 | Andrew Bisset - Great Britain - 1864 - 450 pages
...selling our own cheaper, he adds, " 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." l The Navigation Act carried the animosity between England and Holland into open war. But more than... | |
 | Andrew Bisset - Great Britain - 1864 - 416 pages
...selling our own cheaper, he adds, " 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." 1 The Navigation Act carried the animosity between England and Holland into open war. But more than... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - Hartwell (Buckinghamshire, England) - 1864 - 368 pages
...and economic science, observes— " 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." Yet it has been allowed to pass away ! At the present time it is useless to inveigh against the Act... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 648 pages
...growth of that opulence that can arise from it, remarking, " As defence is of more value than opulence, the Act of Navigation is perhaps the wisest of all the commercial regulations of England." But had Adam Smith lived in our time, he would have seen that the utmost freedom of commerce with foreign... | |
 | sir John Barnard Byles - 1870 - 388 pages
...by the most deliberate wisdom." And again: "As defence is of much more importance " than opulence, THE ACT OF NAVIGATION is PERHAPS " THE WISEST OF ALL THE COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS " OF ENGLAND."* The eminent success of this policy vindicated it in Adam Smith's time : its yet more triumphant success... | |
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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. 
