Essays of Benjamin Franklin

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Identifikator:: 1768152721

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-148079

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: 10 Jahre Wiederaufbau

Place of publication:: Wien

Publisher:: Wirtschaftszeitungs-Verlags-Ges. M.B.H.

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: 664 S.; Ill.

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Der Ausbau des historischen Museums der Stadt Wien

Collection:: Economics Books

: Essays 165 17. If you see rival nations rejoicing at the pros- pect of your disunion with your provinces, and en- deavoring to promote it; if they translate, publish, and applaud all the complaints of your discontented colonists, at the same time privately stimulating you to severer measures, let not that offend you. Why should it, since you all mean the same thing? 18. If any colony should at their own charge erect a fortress to secure their port against the fleets of a foreign enemy, get your governor to betray that fort- ress into your hands. Never think of paying what it costs the country, for that would look at least like some regard for justice; but turn it into a citadel to awe the inhabitants and curb their commerce. If they should have lodged in such fortress the very arms they bought and used to aid you in your con- quests, seize them all; it will provoke, like ingrati- tude added to robbery. One admirable effect of these operations will be to discourage every other colony from erecting such defences, and so their and your enemies may more easily invade them, to the great disgrace of your government, and, of course, the furtherance of your project. 19. Send armies into their country under pretence of protecting the inhabitants; but, instead of garri- soning the forts on their frontiers with those troops to prevent incursions, demolish those forts and order the troops into the heart of the country, that the savages may be encouraged to attack the frontiers, treated as the result of the too great lenity of Great Britain! By the aid of this short and benevolent rule, judgment was ever wisely pre- determined; to the shutting out redress on the one hand, and enforcing every rigor of punishment on the other. 7731 3

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