| John Morley - 1881 - 672 páginas
...the nations maintain their present system of isolation. The Colonial system, with all its duz/.ling appeals to the passions of the people, can never be...Trade, which will gradually and imperceptibly loose the bands which unite our Colonies to us by a mistaken notion of self-interest. Yet the Colonial policy... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1882 - 634 páginas
...entire relief from the burden of her colonies. ' The colonial system,' he wrote in 1842 (i. 230), ' with all its dazzling appeals to the passions of the...indirect process of Free Trade, which will gradually and im* • Life of Bright,' i. 486. t ' Collected Pamphlets,' p. 126. I Morley, ii. 89. perceptibly perceptibly... | |
| Edwin Burgis - 1895 - 276 páginas
...School of politicians made " British citizenship " an idle word. Mr. Cobden, in 1842, referring to the colonial system, " with all its dazzling appeals to the passions of the people," urged Free Trade " to gradually and imperceptibly loosen the bands which unite our colonies to us by... | |
| Charles Ross - 1903 - 400 páginas
...laudable, can never be successful so long as the nations maintain their present system of isolation. The colonial system, with all its dazzling appeals...which unite our colonies to us by a mistaken notion of self-interest. Yet the colonial policy of Europe has been the chief source of wars for the last hundred... | |
| Joseph Chamberlain - 1903 - 236 páginas
...years before the passing of the Corn Law legislation, he wrote to his brother. Mr. Cobden said : " The Colonial system with all its dazzling appeals...the passions of the people can never be got rid of "—got rid of ! Is that the object of our policy ? (cheers)—" can never be got rid of except by... | |
| William Cunningham - 1904 - 188 páginas
...laudable, can never be successful so long as the nations maintain their present system of isolation. The colonial system, with all its dazzling appeals...Trade, which will gradually and imperceptibly loose the bands which unite the Colonies to us by a mistaken notion of self-interest. Yet the Colonial policy... | |
| 1904 - 1072 páginas
...successful eo long as the nations maintain their present system of isolation. '/'.•'"• colonial tystetn, with all its dazzling appeals to the passions of the...trade, which will gradually and imperceptibly loose the bands which unite our Colonies to us by a mistaken notion of self -interest. The italics are my own.... | |
| Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain) - 1904 - 558 páginas
...extract from a letter to Mr. Ashworth in 1842 shows ' : — The Colonial system [writes Mr. Cobden], with all its dazzling appeals to the passions of the...Trade, which will gradually and imperceptibly loose the bands which unite our Colonies to us by a mistaken notion of self-interest. This may not strike some... | |
| William Cunningham - 1905 - 240 páginas
...large and scattered areas together under the authority of the Crown. " The Colonial system," he said, " with all its dazzling appeals to the passions of the...Trade, which will gradually and imperceptibly loose the bands which unite our Colonies to us by a mistaken notion of self-interest1." We may leave it to modern... | |
| 1905 - 630 páginas
...with the existence of Empire. He never " thought Imperially," but looked to free trade to get rid of " the colonial system, with all its dazzling appeals to the passions of the people," and even the dawn of Canadian federation only roused his interest because he " thought it was a step... | |
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