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by its manufactures and commerce is always more enlightened, 

 and more favourable to the advance of the superior arts of life, 

 than one that is supported simply by the produce of its own 

 soil. England did not become a manufacturing and commer- 

 cial country until the reign of Edward the thirl.^ 



• Hallams Hist, of the Middle Asfes. v. 3. p. 3 



