The Economic Policy of Robert Walpole, Volume 27,Numéros 1 à 3Columbia University Press, 1907 - 222 pages A study of economic policy, focusing on the work of Robert Walpole and the taxation of corporations in the United States. . |
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The Economic Policy of Robert Walpole, Volume 27,Numéros 1 à 3 Norris Arthur Brisco Affichage du livre entier - 1907 |
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abolished administration American amount Anne annual annuities balance of trade bank Bank of England book of rates bounty Britain British burden cent colonies Columbia University commerce commodities corn current expenses declared deficit drawbacks economic enacted encourage England English manufacturer English-made exchequer bills excise scheme exportation extra favorable balance foreign fraud French granted greatly Hansard History House of Commons House of Lords Ibid import duties increase industry John Barnard King labor land tax landed interests levied loans Lord malt ment mercantilistic merchants million national debt national wealth navy opposition paid pamphlets Parliament pence Ph.D plantations Political pound Price produce Professor raise redeem reform regulations repealed revenue Robert Walpole salt tax secure sess shillings ships silk sinking fund smuggling South Sea Company Spain subsidy sugar Taxation tion tobacco Walpole's woollen manufactures
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Page 114 - As to the wicked scheme,'' said Walpole, " as the gentleman is pleased to call it, which he would persuade gentlemen is not yet laid aside, I, for my part, assure...
Page 126 - In this situation of affairs we should be extremely wanting to ourselves, if we neglected to improve the favourable opportunity which this general tranquillity gives us, of extending our commerce, upon which the riches and grandeur of this nation chiefly depend. It is very obvious, that nothing would more conduce to the obtaining so public a good, than to make the exportation of our own manufactures, and the importation of the commodities used in the manufacturing of them, as practicable and easy...
Page 24 - Whigs of his time have represented him, and as ill-informed people still represent him, a prodigal and corrupt minister. They charged him, in their libels and seditious conversations, as having first reduced corruption to a system. Such was their cant. But he was far from governing by corruption. He governed by party attachments. The charge of systematic corruption is less applicable to him, perhaps, than to any minister who ever served the crown for so great a length of time.
Page 154 - Hence it follows that all advantageous projects or commercial gains in any colony which are truly prejudicial to and inconsistent with the interests of the mother state must be understood to be illegal and the practice of them unwarrantable, because they contradict the end for which the colony had a being and are incompatible with the terms on which the people claim both privileges and protection.
Page 112 - I'll answer for my regiment against the Pretender, but not against the opposers of the excise.
Page 113 - How conscious he was of having meant well ; that in the present inflamed temper of the people, the act could not be carried into execution without an armed force. That there would be an end of the liberty of England, if supplies were to be raised by the sword.