Quotes from A Plan of the English Commerce — Daniel Defoe
1660–1731 England
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Thus Trade is the Foundation of Wealth, and Wealth of Power.
A Plan of the English Commerce (1728)
Not discouraged by the Severity of the Cold, by the Surface over-grown with Briars and Thorns, by the early Opposition of the Natives, a Race of People fierce and false, untractable, treacherous, irreconcilable, bloody and merciless, even to the most horrible, and almost inexpressible Cruelties, who would rarely make Peace, and more rarely keep their Agreements when made.
A Plan of the English Commerce (1728)
Often massacred and butcher’d, and sometimes quite driven away by the Fury of the Savages, often starv’d out and famished, and either the whole Body of Planters wasted, and perishing with Cold and Want, and as often being reduc’d to Extremities, forc’d to abandon the Country in the utmost Distress, and return starving home.
A Plan of the English Commerce (1728)