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...John Adams: "Foreign nations, all the world I hope, will be invited to come here. And our people [will be] permitted to go to all the world except the dominion of him [King George III] who is adjudged to be Nerone Neronior [more Nero than Nero]. I think the utmost encouragement must be given to trade...
...there were no fulling mills for woolen cloth in New Jersey; now there are 41. The Virginia Convention resolved to turn "from the cultivation of tobacco to the cultivation of such articles as may form a basis for domestic manufactures, which we will endeavour to encourage to the utmost of our abilities...
...disease. As a result, the practice was banned at one tune or another in almost all the colonies. The New York law of 1747, for example, "strictly prohibits and forbids all [doctors] to inoculate for the small pox any person or persons ... on pain of being prosecuted to the utmost rigour...
...comment on the separation last week from Sydney, Australia, where he is opening a show of his own photographs. He told a press conference that he wanted "to pray for the understanding of our two children, to wish Princess Margaret every happiness for her future, and to express with utmost humility my love, admiration and respect I will always have for her sister, mother and indeed her entire family." After such a sad and stormy marriage, it seemed a gallant goodbye...
Kosygin's prescription for his country's economy was increased productivity based on "scientific and technological progress and utmost thrift." Experience teaches, however, that those words will prove empty unless greater incentives are given to the Soviet laborer for working harder and more efficiently...