... own political rights and ultimately prevented the British government from asserting any constructive policy. The Board of Trade from 1740 onwards attempted to regain the initiative through a new approach of active policy making but drastically failed to provide cohesion. Sudden switches to imperialism no longer suited the colonies, which had increasingly been influenced by the progressively democratising and empowered assemblies. Therefore ... shifted from the English-appointed governors and councils to the American-elected assemblies. Complaints by the Privy Council in 1745 about the e...

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... is introduced into the most defective constitutions by the general manners of the times. In peace, the progress of knowledge and industry is accelerated by the emulation of so many active rivals: in war, the European forces are exercised by temperate and undeceive contests. If a savage conqueror should issue from the deserts of Tertiary, he must repeatedly vanquish the robust peasants ... ...

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... development of ever changing reality and analyzing social relationships, the realist writers produced an authentic picture of contemporary personal and social life, since the underlying principle or the realist method, active cognition, brought important new achievements. The realists were able to portray the essential conflicts of their age which conditioned the inner world of their heroes, their way of thinking and ... ...

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... they tried to extinguish with further indulgences. He that by the plow would thrive, himself must either hold or drive. This comment if not anti slavery, was at least pro active in business management, and encouraged men to put their own blood sweat and tears into the establishing and maintenance of their own livelihood, a major aspect of Franklin's American vision. His ... ...

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