Studies in securities

Die wirtschaftlichen Beziehungen zwischen Russisch-Polen und dem Deutschen Reiche und die sich daraus für den Friedensschluss ergebenden Folgerungen

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Identifikator:: 1757542078

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-134903

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Studies in securities

Edition:: Revised

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: Jas. J. Oliphant & Co.

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: 81 S.

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Benjamin Franklin [1760 of the continent; and, if we extend our settlements, shall probably have as many more behind them on the inland side. Those we now have are not only under different governors, but have different forms of government, different laws, different interests, and some of them different religious persuasions and different manners. Their jealousy of each other is so great, that how- ever necessary a union of the colonies has long been, for their common defence and security against their enemies, and how sensible soever each colony has been of that necessity, yet they have never been able to effect such a union among themselves, nor even to agree in requesting the mother country to establish it for them. Nothing but the immediate command of the crown has been able to produce even the imperfect union, but lately seen there, of the forces of some colonies. If they could not agree to unite for their defence against the French and Indians, who were perpetually harassing their settle- ments, burning their villages, and murdering their people, can it reasonably be supposed there is any danger of their uniting against their own nation, which protects and encourages them, with which they have so many connexions and ties of blood, interest, and affection, and which, it is well known, they all love much more than they love one an- other? In short, there are so many causes that must operate to prevent it. that I will venture to say a union amongst them for such a purpose is not merely improbable, it is impossible. And if the union of 56

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