Identifier: worldsgreatevent04sing (find matches)
Title: The world's great events ... a history of the world from ancient to modern times, B.C. 4004 to A.D. 1903
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Singleton, Esther, d. 1930
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : P.F. Collier & Son
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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entence on the tradeand sustenance of America. It was a Bill toprohibit certain Colonies from fishing on thebanks of Newfoundland. Great Britain wasnot ashamed to resort to this petty measure ofretaliation against the American non-importa-tion agreements. Burke proposed a series ofconciliatory Resolutions, of a less sweepingnature than those of Chatham, and thereforemore likely to be acceptable to men of tem-perate opinions. They were rejected on adivision of two hundred and seventy againstseventy-eight. The speech of the great states-man presented a masterly review of the won-derful growth of the American Colonies—their successful industry, their commercialimportance to Great Britain. The whole ex-port trade of England, including the colonialtrade, was six millions and a half in 1704.The export trade to the Colonies alone was sixTrade milHons in 1772. These statistical facts wereColonies, suddenly illumined by a burst of oratory, per-haps unrivalled. Allen, Lord Bathurst, to >8-
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w ow < J!H A.D. 1773 DESTRUCTION OF TEA IN BOSTON 1685 whom Pope addressed his Epistle on the Useof Riches—Bathurst unspoiled by wealth,the father of the Lord Chancellor of 1775,—was cited by Burke as one that might remem-ber all the stages of the growth of our nationalprosperity. He was in 1704 of an age atleast to be made to comprehend such things.Suppose that the angel of that auspiciousyouth had opened to him in vision the for-tunes of his house in the twelfth year of thethird prince of the line of Brunswick: Ifamid these bright and happy scenes of domes-tic honor and prosperity, that angel shouldhave drawn up the curtain, and unfolded therising glories of his country, and while he wasgazing with admiration on the then commer- Marvellouscial grandeur of England, the genius should ^^^^^point out to him a little speck, scarce visiblein the mass of the national interest, a smallseminal principle, rather than a formed body,and should tell him—Young man, there isAmerica—whic

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