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... trade . With more concern have I conti- nually observed the growing vices and follies of my country folk : and though reformation is properly the concern of every man , that is , every one ought to mend one ; yet it is too true in this ...
... trade . With more concern have I conti- nually observed the growing vices and follies of my country folk : and though reformation is properly the concern of every man , that is , every one ought to mend one ; yet it is too true in this ...
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... trades . Many are the idle stories told of the private suc- cess of some people , by which others are encouraged to proceed ; and the astrologers , with whom the country swarms at this time , are either in the belief of these things ...
... trades . Many are the idle stories told of the private suc- cess of some people , by which others are encouraged to proceed ; and the astrologers , with whom the country swarms at this time , are either in the belief of these things ...
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... , & c . is called geometry . As to the usefulness of arithmetic , it is well known that no business , commerce , trade , or em . ployment whatsoever , even from the merchant to the shopkeeper 58 FRANKLIN'S ESSAYS AND LETTÉKS ,
... , & c . is called geometry . As to the usefulness of arithmetic , it is well known that no business , commerce , trade , or em . ployment whatsoever , even from the merchant to the shopkeeper 58 FRANKLIN'S ESSAYS AND LETTÉKS ,
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... trade and navigation ; nor indeed were they much better in other matters of useful knowledge . It was a green - headed time ; every useful improvement was hid from them ; they had neither looked into heaven nor earth , into sea nor land ...
... trade and navigation ; nor indeed were they much better in other matters of useful knowledge . It was a green - headed time ; every useful improvement was hid from them ; they had neither looked into heaven nor earth , into sea nor land ...
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... trade without books , and correspondence without posts : their merchants kept no accounts , their shopkeepers no cash - books : they had surgery without anatomy , and physicians without the materia medica : they gave emetics without ...
... trade without books , and correspondence without posts : their merchants kept no accounts , their shopkeepers no cash - books : they had surgery without anatomy , and physicians without the materia medica : they gave emetics without ...
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