Rise of the United Empire Loyalists —— A Sketch of American History

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ISBN: 9781330751800 出版年：2016 页码：124 Frederic Gregory Forsyth Forgotten Books

The motive which prompted the first settler to go from England to Virginia, as the northern division was called, was for commercial self-interest; the finding of gold and the acquiring of estates. But the motive of the king in extending his empire beyond seas was to create regal states, — states whose autonomies might resemble in every feature the autonomy of the parent state as a mirror reflects an image.