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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1791. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... or to the present grandeur of the colonies of America? In one way, and in one way only, it has contributed a good deal. Magna viriim Mater! It bred and formed the men who were capable of achieving such great actions, and of laying the foundation of so great an empire; and there is no other quarter of the world of which the policy is , capable of forming, or has ever actually and irv fact formed such men. The colonies owe to the policy of Europe the education and great views of their active and enterprising founders; and some of the greatest and most important of them , so far as concerns their internal government, owe to it scarce any thing else. Part Third. Of the advantages -which Europe has derived from the discovery of America, and from that of a Pajfage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. OUCH are the advantages which the colonies of America had derived from the policy of Europe. What are those which Europe has derived from the discovery and colonization of America? Those advantages may be divided, first, into the general advantages which Europe, considered as one great country, has derived from those great events ; and, secondly , into the particular advantages which each colonizing country has derived from the colonies which particularly belong to it, in consequence of the authority or dominion ■which it exercised over them. The general advantages which Europe, con. sidered as one great country, has derived from the discovery and colonization of America, consist, first, in the increase of its enjoyments ; and, secondly, in the augmentation of its industry. The surplus produce of America, imported into Europe, furnishes the inhabitants of this great continent with a variety of commodities which they could not otherwise have possessed, some f...
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