This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1814 Excerpt: ... among them, would have been like what the emperor, Charles the Sixth, did, when, by establishing the East India Trading Company, he made England and Holland his irreconcileable enemies. Was.it not, then, more prudent in Moses to preserve the friendship of the neighbouring Sidonians, and of the Art. 39. Solomoji ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1814 Excerpt: ... among them, would have been like what the emperor, Charles the Sixth, did, when, by establishing the East India Trading Company, he made England and Holland his irreconcileable enemies. Was.it not, then, more prudent in Moses to preserve the friendship of the neighbouring Sidonians, and of the Art. 39. Solomoji patronised Commerce. 217 other Canaanites without the borders of Palestine, particularly when it is considered, 7. That by their vicinity, and by the passage of the Asiatic trading caravans to Egypt, those advantages of trade which I have stated under Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4.; that is, by far its most important advantages, were secured to the Israelites; while they only lost the precarious profit which the merchant makes of his wares, and that of sea freight, which is still more precarious, besides being attended with loss of many lives? With all this, however, it still remains doubtful whether it was the mind of Moses that trade was never to be cultivated, even when the state should have attained its full maturity, and whether, therefore, Solomon acted contrary to his laws (to the spirit of them, at least, allowing that the letter remained untransgressed) when, under his government, he opened this new source of wealth. On this point, holy writ pronounces no judgment; for while it blames many other actions of Solomon, this is recorded without either praise or censure. Thus much, however, is certain, that most of the reasons which I have adduced above, as dissuasive of foreign commerce, were by Solomon's time done away; and besides, I must still remark, that the bustle and temptations of trade are by no means peculiarly favourable to the interests of an infant colony. For while the people are yet unhabituated to agriculture, and have not reduced it into a sy...
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