 | Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1807 - 454 pages
...whose quarrel we have spent so many millions, and spilt such torrents of blood! In short, and to sum up all at once, I look upon it to have been a very imprudent act, to have settled any distant colonies at all, whilst there remained an inch of land in Great Britain capable... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1819 - 444 pages
...whose quarrel we have spent so many millions, and spilt such torrents of blood! In short, and to sum up all at once, I look upon it to have been a very imprudent act to have settled any distant colonies at all, whitst there remained an inch of land in Great Britain capable... | |
 | Walter Ernest Clark - Economics - 1903 - 274 pages
...Britain to the American colonies is expressed in a letter to Lord Kames, in 1782: " In short to sum up all at once I look upon it to have been a very imprudent act to have settled any distant colonies at all whilst there remained an inch of land in great Britain capable... | |
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In short, and to sum up all at once, I look upon it to have been a very imprudent act, to have settled any distant colonies at all, whilst there remained an inch of land in Great Britain capable of further cultivation... 