 But, depend upon it, your example will ultimately prevail. When your example could be quoted in favour of restriction, it was quoted largely; when your example can be quoted in favour of relaxation, as conducive to your interests, it may perhaps excite...  Journal of the Society of Arts - Page 391904Full view - About this book
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1846 - 750 pages
...as conducive to your interests, it may perhaps excite at first, in Foreign Governments, or foreign Boards of Trade, but little interest or feeling ;...That is my firm belief. I see symptoms of it already. Our last accounts from the United States give indications of the decline of a hostile spirit in this... | |
 | Leone Levi - England - 1872 - 642 pages
...relaxation as conducive to your interest, it may perhaps excite at first in foreign governments, in foreign boards of trade, but little interest or feeling ;...consumers will prevail ; and in spite of the desire of government and boards of trade to raise revenue by restrictive duties, reason and common sense will... | |
 | William Nassau Molesworth - Great Britain - 1874 - 424 pages
...relaxation, as conducive to your interests, it may perhaps excite at first in foreign governments or foreign boards of trade but little interest or feeling ; but...common sense will induce relaxation of high duties. Our last accounts from the United States give indications of the decline of a hostile spirit in this... | |
 | William Nassau Molesworth - Great Britain - 1874 - 428 pages
...relaxation, as conducive to your interests, it may perhaps excite at first in foreign governments or foreign boards of trade but little interest or feeling ; but...common sense will induce relaxation of high duties. Our last accounts from the United States give indications of the decline of a hostile spirit in this... | |
 | Statistics - 1878 - 740 pages
...as conducive to your interests, it may perhaps excite at first, in foreign Governments, or foreign boards of trade, but little interest or feeling; but...is my firm belief; I see symptoms of it already." It is curious, at the distance of more than thirty years, and with the exports swollen to nearly four... | |
 | English literature - 1881 - 622 pages
...on the face of the earth. ' Depend upon it,' he said, ' your example will ultimately prevail . . . Reason and common sense will induce relaxation of...is my firm belief; I see symptoms of it already.' } Already ! And what symptoms of * 'If France will bny from us, she will be able to export to us, but... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - Great Britain - 1884 - 452 pages
...relaxation, as conducive to your interests, it may perhaps excite at first in foreign governments or foreign boards of trade but little interest or feeling ; but...common sense will induce relaxation of high duties. Our last accounts from the United States give indications of the decline of a hostile spirit in this... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1884 - 1076 pages
...Robert Peel also argued on the supposition that our example would be followed. He said — " In spito of the desire of Governments and Boards of Trade to...common sense will induce relaxation of high duties. The sense of the people will prevail." And he added — " Our last accounts from the United States... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1884 - 626 pages
...and human nature far too well to believe in the doctrine which Peel had adopted from Cobden, that ' in spite of the desire of Governments and Boards of...to raise revenue by restrictive duties, reason and common-sense will induce relaxation of high duties' by foreign governments. He foresaw all the dangers... | |
 | James Stephen Jeans - Great Britain - 1885 - 482 pages
...relaxation, as conducive to your interests, it may perhaps excite at first in foreign governments, or foreign boards of trade, but little interest or .feeling ;...common sense will induce relaxation of high duties." After the lapse of about forty years it is interesting to inquire and ascertain how far Sir Robert... | |
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