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Identifikator:: 1895264332

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Author:: Myers, Gustavus

Title:: Geschichte der großen amerikanischen Vermögen

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Fischer

Year of publication:: 1916 -

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1895266750

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-242184

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Author:: Myers, Gustavus http://d-nb.info/gnd/10190651X

Title:: Geschichte der großen amerikanischen Vermögen

Volume count:: Bd. 1

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Fischer

Year of publication:: 1916

Scope:: XL, 412 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Zweiter Teil: Die grossen Landvermögen

Collection:: Economics Books

Benjamin Franklin [1710 they are to this nation in power and numbers of people, are enemies to be still apprehended; and the Highlanders of Scotland have been so for many ages, by the greatest princes of Scotland and Britain. The wild Irish were able to give a great deal of disturb- ance even to Queen Elizabeth, and cost her more blood and treasure than her war with Spain. Can- ada, in the hands of France, has always stinted the growth of our colonies, in the course of this war, and indeed before it; has disturbed and vexed even the best and strongest of them; has found means to murder thousands of their people, and unsettle a great part of their country. Much more able will it be to starve the growth of an infant settlement. Canada has also found means to make this nation spend two or three millions a year in America; and a people, how small soever, that in their present situation can do this as often as we have a war with them, is, methinks, “an enemy to be apprehended.” Our North American colonies are to be considered as the frontier of the British empire on that side. The frontier of any dominion being attacked, it becomes not merely “the cause’’ of the people immediately attacked, the inhabitants of that frontier, but prop- erly “the cause’ of the whole body. Where the frontier people owe and pay obedience, there they have a right to look for protection. No political proposition is better established than this. It is therefore invidious to represent the “blood and treasure’’ spent in this war as spent in “the cause of the colonies’ only; and that they are “absurd and ungrateful,” if they think we have done nothing, 32

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