The History of Colonization from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, Volume 2

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Macmillan, 1900 - Colonization
 

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Page 42 - The best in the world. They were led by a thread. They had not only a respect, but an affection, for Great Britain, for its people, its laws, its customs and manners, and even a fondness for its fashions that greatly increased
Page 364 - Report of the Lords of the Committee of the Council appointed for the consideration of all matters relating to trade and foreign plantations, submitting the evidence and information
Page 80 - similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron.
Page 64 - during any period increase so fast as from the Restoration to the Revolution. The two Dutch wars, by disturbing the trade of that republic, promoted the navigation of this island, and after Charles had made a separate peace with the states his subjects enjoyed unmolested the trade of Europe.
Page 28 - It was the first written constitution known to history that created a government, and it marked the beginnings of American democracy, of which Thomas Hooker deserves more than any other man to be called the father. The government of the United States to-day is in lineal descent more nearly related to that of Connecticut than to that of any of the other thirteen colonies."— FISKE,
Page 162 - That a convention, consisting of ten representatives of each colony, directly chosen by the electors, be charged with the duty of framing a federal constitution. "That the constitution so framed be submitted to the electors for acceptance or rejection by direct vote. " That such constitution, if accepted by
Page 49 - With the triumph of Wolfe on the Heights of Abraham began the history of the United States. By removing an enemy whose dread had knit the
Page 160 - the best interests and the present and future prosperity of the Australian colonies will be promoted by an early union under the Crown, with a single legislative and executive government on principles just to the several colonies.
Page 70 - an act for establishing certain regulations for the better management of the affairs of the East India Company.
Page 82 - of the Spanish law ; Demerara, Cape of Good Hope, and Ceylon retain much of Dutch law ; Lower Canada retains the French civil law according to the ' coutume de Paris ' ; St. Lucia retains the old French law as it existed when the Island belonged to France,

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