Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	great_a	river_n	town_n	5,503	4	6.2089	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25436	Angliae tutamen, or, The safety of England being an account of the banks, lotteries, mines, diving, draining, lifting, and other engines, and many pernicious projects now on foot tending to the destruction of trade and commerce, and the impoverishing this realm : with reflections thereon of great import to all sorts of people / by a person of honour.	Person of honour.	1695 (1695)	Wing A3182; ESTC R25244	18,676	36

manag'd would be of infinite Advantage to all those Places and besides the charitable dealing of Subsistence to the numerous Poor would wonderfully enrich all the Proprietors and be also for the Publick Interest for the fewer Foreign Commodities we consume among our selves the more we save and consequently get and if we could be so happy to bring 'em to Perfection fit for Exportation to supply Markets abroad we should then pinch the Dutch the World 's common Carriers and universal Traders for the more they or any Foreigners get from us the poorer we are and shall be All due Encouragement has been given to these great Undertakings the present King and late Queen permitted them to be honour'd with their Names which gave a mighty Reputation to them their Fame rose and their Credit encreas'd and abundance of People of Condition were mingled some led by Lucre others by Love of their Country though of them the fewest push'd on the Business very vigorously united and incorporated themselves chose a Governor and Officers Inspectors and Comptrollers actually set at work Spinners and other Workers Weavers Whitsters c. and thought it would have produc'd great Profit for the Actions mounted apace and in great probability of being higher when all on a suddain some greedy mercenary mean Spirits fell to Stock-Jobbing and scar'd the Easie and Timerous and brought the Actions down abundance sold off their Shares contented with their first Profits which were considerable rather than to attend the hazard of making greater in a little time or losing some of the present and so by degrees the Reputation of this mighty Manufacture sunk here and I understand is in a bad Condition and will hardly be able to hold up its Head much less to advance any further The same Fate is fear'd may attend the rest Now this was really a good Design and it is pity it had not the good Fortune to flourish they had brought Linen-Cloth to great Perfection and had some Dutch Hands and some few Heads to assist them I wish they had had of the last This was indeed a noble Undertaking and merited well of the Publick By the Assistance of the Dutch we have hugely improv'd our Lands in the North-Parts of this Kingdom by sowing vast quantities of Lin-Seed Rape-Seed and others and thence making Oils in great quantities which we export in abundance and consume at home in lieu of Foreign and dearer Oils to our double Advantage for the less of the Foreign are imported and the more of our own exported the greater is our Gain The Profits that arise hence are much more considerable to the Landlords and Tenants than those of any Corn or Grain whatsoever and how much more we might advance our Lands by sowing Flax and Hemp-Seeds if our Linen-Manufactures succeeded as they might is plain to every common Understanding But I think we are not destin'd to do our selves and our Country Good I am sorry that England is so barren of true Patriots a word so Great and Glorious that the ancient Romans thought it a very great Honour and valu'd themselves very much upon being so call'd White Blue and Brown-Papers made here in England Ireland and Scotland shall be examin'd next This good Fortune we in England have had to improve wonderfully in this Art and though we cannot reach the French Perfection yet we come pretty near it and make much finer Paper than ever which in this our Exigency I mean the Prohibition of Commerce with France is of very great Service to us but our Hands are dearer that are employ'd we cannot work so cheap as the French because we must have Beef Pudding and strong Drink our People can't live upon Onions Turnips and small Soupes besides our Linen-Manufacture miscarrying gives a damp to this honest and useful Undertaking and it is a thousand pities we can't raise Paper to the French Goodness and lowness of Price because 't would tend so vastly to our Advantage in keeping us from laying out such vast Summs of Money with France for this Commodity alone that instead of Importing it from thence we might Export it to other Countries which would employ Thousands and enrich Hundreds The Linen-Manufacture on which it partly depends and by which in great measure it subsists being so much sunk in its Reputation that 't is fear'd 't is at its last gasp irretrievable stops the growth of this which notwithstanding is flourishing and kekps its Head above Water vast quantities of Paper are daily made here and the Ragg-gatherers hard put to it to supply us though they bear a good Price and has encreas'd that Profession that some are starving and others begging who have assur'd me the scarcity of Raggs is great and that the young diligent Collectors out-do the old and go out in the Nights to the Dung-hills and Laystalls to tumble them over for this Merchandize which at this time are mightily call'd for Waters of New-River Thames York-Buildings London-Bridge Shadwell Conduit Hampstead c. are Projections all worthy of great Encouragement and so the first has had to the gaining of vast Estates by the Proprietors though the unhappy Gentleman that began the Work fell by it and suffer'd extreamly in his Fortune which ought to have been made up by the City that receiv'd such Benefits by his Brains a grateful People would have erected a Monument to his fame but we in England keep close to an old Adage Every man for himself and God for us all I think some Favours were shown the Descendents of this Great though infortunate Undertaker the Middleton's who bear his Blood and carry his Name were presented with some Shares This and the Thames Water have gain'd the Ascendent and much Money has been got by the latter They are kept in good Hands and the Stock-Jobbers those Moles those Underminers and Destroyers not suffer'd to come amongst them the Jack-Daws have been too hard for the Rooks as those Gentlemen are call'd but now here are new Conveyances of this useful Element and humble Servant Water laid in the Earth the Conduit for the City of London which is better Water and cheaper imposing no Fine which the New River arbitrarily and unreasonably did for which it is meritoriously punish'd and the Proprietors clipt in their Profits by the great fall of their Actions or Shares The Hampstead also will supply that End of the Town Holborn c. nearest to which it lies and the Terms are fairer and easier which lop off more from the New River but this last I mean Hampstead-Water unhappily passes through such Hands that in all probability it will come to nothing or turn to very small Accompt the Stock-Jobbers have broke in and I am of Opinion will break out outright that is ruine the Affair These are really noble and commendable Undertakings not Whims or Maggots Chimera's or Airy Notions but real solid and substantial Designs of serving the Publick and merit the Approbation of all Men