Colonies

Examples

• Such colonies, therefore, have been a source of expense, and not of revenue, to their respective mother countries. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Agriculture is the proper business of all new colonies; a business which the cheapness of land renders more advantageous than any other. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• There is also every reason to believe that the French colonists in Maryland and Canada let no great time elapse before importing tables and equipment into those colonies. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It is true Carthagena is in America, but as remote from the northern colonies as if it had been in Europe. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The Roman colonies furnished occasionally both the one and the other. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• That of England contributed as little towards effectuating the establishment of some of its most important colonies in North America. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• And they may believe you never will exercise it in the colonies any more than in Ireland, unless on some very extraordinary occasion. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• There was a rapid development of plantations and proprietary colonies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In all European colonies, the culture of the sugar-cane is carried on by negro slaves. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Gold and silver, therefore, very seldom appear in the commerce between Great Britain and the tobacco colonies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The Honourable Ronald Adair was the second son of the Earl of Maynooth, at that time governor of one of the Australian colonies. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Such have been the general outlines of the policy of the different European nations with regard to their colonies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Both Ireland and the colonies, indeed, would be subjected to heavier taxes than any which they at present pay. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Here we note it simply as an added factor in the heterogeneous mixture of the British Colonies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Unjust, however, as such prohibitions may be, they have not hitherto been very hurtful to the colonies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Where there is no crown there cannot be crown colonies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The colonies were recommended to Parliament. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• They are very weak who flatter themselves that, in the state to which things have come, our colonies will be easily conquered by force alone. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The parliament of Great Britain insists upon taxing the colonies; and they refuse to be taxed by a parliament in which they are not represented. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Was Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Oh, this is an Havana, and these others are cigars of the peculiar sort which are imported by the Dutch from their East Indian colonies. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• I was born, and partly brought up, in one of our colonies. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Such are the advantages which the colonies of America have derived from the policy of Europe. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• These prices are all above the London price; and wages are said to be as high in the other colonies as in New York. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• No oppressive aristocracy has ever prevailed in the colonies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The natives build their huts out of small poles covered with palm thatch and live in little colonies while the rubber harvest is going on. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It was in all the colonies very much above what could be employed in this manner. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• That to their colonies is carried on in their own, and is much greater, on account of the great riches and extent of those colonies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Pennsylvania was always more moderate in its emissions of paper money than any other of our colonies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The crown of Spain, by its share of the gold and silver, derived some revenue from its colonies from the moment of their first establishment. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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