 | Adam Shortt, Sir Arthur George Doughty - 1914 - 484 pàgines
...is not favourable to foreign commerce, nor to the opulence which can arise from that ; but defence is of much more importance than opulence. The Act of Navigation is perhaps the wisest of all the commercial regulations of England.' The elder Pitt, whose whole influence... | |
 | Andrew John Herbertson - 1914 - 408 pàgines
...number of its sailors and shipping,' and his verdict upon the Navigation Acts was that ' as defence is of much more importance than opulence, the act of navigation is perhaps the wisest of all the commercial regulations of England '-1 But, originating in the desire... | |
 | Andrew John Herbertson - 1914 - 432 pàgines
...number of its sailors and shipping,- and his verdict upon the Navigation Acts was that - as defence is of much more importance than opulence, the act of navigation is perhaps the wisest of all the commercial regulations of England -.i But, originating in the desire... | |
 | 1916 - 594 pàgines
...provisions "are as wise as if they had all been dictated by the most deliberate wisdom." "As defence," says Adam Smith, "is of much more importance than opulence, the Act of Navigation is perhaps the wisest of all the commercial regulations of England." This is coming to be the opinion... | |
 | Charles Herbert Currey - 1916 - 294 pàgines
...and decreased the price of those sold by England, but, he went on, in memorable words, ' as defence is of much more importance than opulence, the Act of Navigation is perhaps the wisest of all the commercial regulations of England.' It was certainly most advantageous... | |
 | John Taylor Peddie - 1916 - 268 pàgines
...but to sell our own cheaper than if there was a more perfect freedom of trade. 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. " The second case in which it will... | |
 | John Atkinson Hobson - 1916 - 182 pàgines
...contended that it was advantageous as a defence against the naval power of Holland. " 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." It is clear, however, that the Act... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1916 - 48 pàgines
...but to sell our own cheaper than if there was a more perfect freedom of trade. 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." Already it is tolerably clear that... | |
 | George Louis Beer - 1917 - 356 pàgines
...peril, even if it take a somewhat different guise. VII ECONOMIC INTERDEPENDENCE " As defence, however, is of much more importance than opulence, the Act of Navigation is, perhaps, the wisest of all commercial regulations of England." — ADAM SMITH, The Wealth of Nations,... | |
 | Sir Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave, Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave - 1901 - 824 pàgines
...rational mercantilists would recognise much of their own teaching. Thus on the ground that defence is of much more importance than opulence, "the act of navigation" is described as "perhaps the wisest of all the commercial regulations of England." The taxation of foreign... | |
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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. 
