 ... he calls the sea the British Common. He is acquainted with commerce in all its parts, and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms, for true power is to be got by arts and industry. He will often argue, that if...  Select British Classics - Page 101803Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1899 - 222 pages
...and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms ; for true power is to be got by arts and indus- 10 try. He will often argue that if this part of our trade...that diligence makes more lasting acquisitions than valor, and that sloth has ruined more nations than the 15 sword. He abounds in several frugal maxims,... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1899 - 222 pages
...and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms; for true power is to be got by arts and indus- 10 try. He will often argue that if this part of our trade...that diligence makes more lasting acquisitions than valor, and that sloth has ruined more nations than the 15 sword. He abounds in several frugal maxims,... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1899 - 226 pages
...and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms ; for true power is to be got by arts and indus- 10 try. He will often argue that if this part of our trade...that diligence makes more lasting acquisitions than valor, and that sloth has ruined more nations than the 15 sword. He abounds in several frugal maxims,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1899 - 230 pages
...true power is to be got by arts and industry. He will often argue that if this part of our trade 15 were well cultivated, we should gain from one nation...that diligence makes more lasting acquisitions than valor, and that sloth has ruined more nations than the sword. He abounds in several frugal maxims,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1899 - 228 pages
...commerce in all its parts, and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms ; for true power is to be got by arts and industry....He will often argue that if this part of our trade 15 were well cultivated, we should gain from one nation ; and if another, from another. I have heard... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1899 - 232 pages
...commerce in all its parts, and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms ; for true power is to be got by arts and industry....He will often argue that if this part of our trade 15 were well cultivated, we should gain from one nation ; and if another, from another. I have heard... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1899 - 238 pages
...commerce in all its parts, and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms ; for true power is to be got by arts and industry....He will often argue that if this part of our trade 15 were well cultivated, we should gain from one nation ; and if another, from another. I have heard... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1900 - 286 pages
...in all its parts, and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion 85 by arms ; for true power is to be got by arts and industry....diligence makes more lasting acquisitions than valour, 90 and that sloth has ruined more nations than the sword. He abounds in several frugal maxims, amongst... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1900 - 282 pages
...in all its parts, and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion 85 by arms ; for true power is to be got by arts and industry....diligence makes more lasting acquisitions than valour, 90 and that sloth has ruined more nations than the sword. He abounds in several frugal maxims, amongst... | |
 | 1900 - 492 pages
...commerce in all its parts, and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms ; for true power is to be got by arts and industry....that diligence makes more lasting acquisitions than valor, and that sloth has ruined more nations than the sword. He abounds in several frugal maxims,... | |
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