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Measures as Well as Men, Or, the Present and Future Interests of Great Britain (bk. 64)
Measures as Well as Men Or the Present and Future Interests of Great Britain - bk. 64 Author:Great Britain Subtitle: With a Plan for Rendering Us a Martial, as Well as a Commercial, People ... Volume: bk. 64 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1806 Original Publisher: Johnson Subjects: Great Britain History / Europe / Great Britain Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustratio... more »ns and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: For the subject is too copious to require me to borrow his ideas and proposals, unless as corollaries, which he has omitted to deduce; and I shall treat it therefore under the following heads : 1st, The general nature and economy of the system, and of the measures recommended by it, as well as of those pursued for a long time past, that ' should be wholly abandoned: 2dly, The proper practical means for carrying the system, and the measures it recommends, into effect. In conclusion I shall subjoin a few particular addresses to the most suitable personages and parties for introducing and forwarding the proposed system of general welfare. It now remains to observe, that it is absolutely necessary in the present short tract, to reduce it's contents to the smallest compass possible ; but that the works referred to in the appendix will supply any deficiency, that may occur in explaining them, and in supporting them by their requisite proofs: for, if any doubts should occur, or be left unanswered, the subject is too important for me not to point out where they may be fully solved. ,. The system of general welfare above announced, as composing The Ist Division of my subject, may be more particularly considered, as it is useful, agreeable, and pleasing; and in general practical and executive. It is calculated, not only in every respect, but in the highest degree in all, respects, to serve and benefit mankind. It's pow ers for ...« less