 | Adam Smith - 1811 - 532 sider
...Indies. They have hitherto been disappointed in both. PART II. Causes of the Prosperity of new Colonies, THE colony of a civilized nation which takes possession...wealth and greatness than any other human society. The colonists carry out with them a knowledge 0f agriculture and of other useful arts, superior to... | |
 | John Bird Sumner - 1818 - 448 sider
...than to glance, in passing, at these beneficial effects of the overflow of Europe; for it will * " The colony of a civilized nation which takes possession...than any other human society." Wealth of Nations, b. ir ch. vii. 3 Hot surely be denied, that such an increase in the number of the civilized inhabitants... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1819 - 532 sider
...They have hitherto been disappointed in both. PART. IL y Causes of the Prosperity of New Colonies. THE colony of a civilized nation which takes possession...rapidly to wealth and greatness than any other human soeiety. The colonies carry out with them a knowledge of agriculture and of other useful arts, superior... | |
 | Robert Lyall - 1824 - 78 sider
...succession, seem to have been fully aware of the fact, that the introduction of foreigners, or of a colony of a civilized nation which takes possession, either of a waste country, or of a country so thinly inhabited that the natives easily give place to the new settlers, advances more... | |
 | Edward Gibbon Wakefield - 1833 - 354 sider
...the trouble to examine the following statement of " the Causes of the Prosperity of New Colonies"* " The colony of a civilized nation which takes possession...rapidly to wealth and greatness than any other human society."-/This assertion does not rest on facts. iSome few new colonies have advanced very rapidly... | |
 | Edward Gibbon Wakefield - 1833 - 362 sider
...following statement of " the Causes of the Prosperity of New Colonies"* " The colony of a civilized jiation which takes possession either of a waste country,...wealth and greatness than any other human society." This assertion does not rest on facts. Some few new colonies have advanced very rapidly in population;... | |
 | Edward Gibbon Wakefield - 1833 - 706 sider
...the trouble to examine the following statement of " the Causes of the Prosperity of New Colonies."* " The colony of a civilized nation which takes possession either of a waste codhtry, or of one so thinly inhabited that the natives easily give place to the new settlers, advances... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - 1835 - 344 sider
...with his usual sagacity ; and I make no scruple to adopt his observations. " The colony of a civilised nation which takes possession either of a waste country,...wealth and greatness than any other human society. The colonists carry out with them a knowledge of agriculture, and of other useful arts, superior to... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1836 - 538 sider
...Indies. They have hitherto been disappointed in both. PART II. Causes of the Prosperity of new Colonies. THE colony of a civilized nation which takes possession...of a waste country, or of one so thinly inhabited tbat the natives easily give place to the new settlers, advances more rapidly to wealth and greatness... | |
 | 1838 - 266 sider
...little can be added to his remarks on the subject : — " The colony of a civilized nation," says he, " which takes possession either of a waste country,...wealth and greatness than any other human society.* " The colonies carry out with them a knowledge of agriculture and of other useful arts, superior to... | |
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THE COLONY OF A civilized nation which takes possession, either of a waste country or of one so thinly inhabited, that the natives easily give place to the new settlers, advances more rapidly to wealth and greatness than any other human society. 
