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British Empire

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overseas possessions of England and later the United Kingdom (1607–1997)

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Commerce and manufactures have accordingly been continually advancing during all this period. The cultivation and improvement of the country has, no doubt, been gradually advancing too; but it seems to have followed slowly, and at a distance, the more rapid progress of commerce and manufactures.
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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After all its reductions, the British empire is still vast and various. After all the reductions of the House of Commons, (stripped as we are of our brightest ornaments and of our most important privileges,) enough are yet left to furnish us, if we please, with means of showing to the…
Edmund Burke, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03
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The colonies may be taxed either by their own assemblies, or by the parliament of Great Britain. That the colony assemblies can never be so managed as to levy upon their constituents a public revenue, sufficient, not only to maintain at all times their own civil and military establishment, but to pay their proper proportion of the expense of the general government of the British empire, seems not very probable. It…
Adam Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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