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Identifikator:: 1042018391

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-81635

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Untersuchungen über das Versicherungswesen in Deutschland

Place of publication:: München

Publisher:: Verlag von Duncker & Humblot

Year of publication:: 1913

Scope:: V, 362 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: I. Geschäftliche Versicherung

Collection:: Economics Books

1 Benjamin Franklin [1753 Americans, that it has been supposed not a single man among them has been convinced of his error, even by that act of Parliament. The person, then, who first projected to lay aside the accustomed method of requisition, and to raise money on America by stamps, seems not to have acted wisely, in deviating from that method (which the colonists looked upon as constitutional), and thwarting unnecessarily the fixed prejudices of so great a number of the King’s subjects. It was not, however, for want of knowledge that what he was about to do would give them offence; he appears to have been very sensible of this, and apprehensive that it might occasion some disorders; to prevent or suppress which, he projected another bill that was brought in the same session with the Stamp Act, whereby it was to be made lawful for military officers in the colonies to quarter their soldiers in private houses. This seemed intended to awe the people into a compliance with the other act. Great opposition, however, being raised here against the bill, by the agents from the colonies and the merchants trading thither (the colonists declaring that under such a power in the army no one could look on his house as his own, or think he had a home, when soldiers might be thrust into it and mixed with his family at the pleasure of an officer), that part of the bill was dropt; but there still remained a clause, when it passed into a law, to oblige the several assemblies to provide quarters for the soldiers, furnishing them with firing, bedding, candles, small beer or rum, and sundry other

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