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[DOBBS ( Arthur ), attributed to. Some thoughts concerning government in general : and our present c

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[DOBBS ( Arthur ), attributed to. Some thoughts concerning government in general : and our present c

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Auction Date:2012 Oct 20 @ 11:00 (UTC+1)
Location:38 Molesworth Street, Dublin, Dublin, ., Ireland
[DOBBS ( Arthur ), attributed to. Some thoughts concerning government in general : and our present circumstances in Great-Britain and Ireland Dublin : Printed by and for J. Hyde, Bookseller in Dame’s Street, 1728FIRST EDITION, pages (2),60, (2, blank),8vo, recent marbled boards : a :very good copy. Kress 3767. Dobbs (1689–1765), colonial governor and writer on trade. His Irish sensitivities, his personal stake in colonial development in the prosperity and development of North Carolina, and his career ambitions as a crown official were a volatile and potentially creative compound of attitudes, temperament, and ideology. His friend and early patron, Lord Hertford (who had introduced him to Holdernesse), frankly warned both Dobbs and Holdernesse that his visionary proposals for reforming English–Irish relations could wreck his career. The rebuke only spurred Dobbs to bolder advocacy for the reform of Irish policy. Dobbs's experience in Scotland, moreover, convinced him that free trade could effect the same social miracle in Ireland that it had in Scotland. Dobbs's encyclopaedic knowledge of Irish economic problems, especially the wool trade, were of a piece with his candour, eloquence, and sense of imperial urgency. He argued cogently for a strengthening of the North American colonies as the best preparation for the inevitable next war with France, and the implication that a distressed Ireland threatened Britain's national security lay just below the surface of his policy recommendations. Dobbs's ability to incorporate a radical indictment of exploitation and injustice into writings on Irish and colonial policy administration was typical of Anglican–Irish political discourse in the age of Swift and Burke, and he was one of the foremost Irish protestant ‘commonwealth men’ of the 18C (Robbins) - ODNB. Dobbs was a neighbour ad family friend of Jonathan Swift despite their political differences.ENGLISH PRE 1801; DUBLIN PRINTED; ECONOMICS; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;