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The effect of the first , was to render silk goods so extravagantly high , as to prevent their being used by any but the most opulent classes ; and of the second , to extinguish , or at least very much weaken , that spirit of invention ...
The effect of the first , was to render silk goods so extravagantly high , as to prevent their being used by any but the most opulent classes ; and of the second , to extinguish , or at least very much weaken , that spirit of invention ...
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-that if Government allows a private gentleman to exchange a bit of paper for an estate , he will be deterred from doing so by any considerations about its effect in sinking the value of the currency ?
-that if Government allows a private gentleman to exchange a bit of paper for an estate , he will be deterred from doing so by any considerations about its effect in sinking the value of the currency ?
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Very few country gentle- men have a just feeling for what painters call general effect ; breadth of light and shade ; connection and grouping of parts ; the importance of which is so ably illustrated by Girardin , Price , and other ...
Very few country gentle- men have a just feeling for what painters call general effect ; breadth of light and shade ; connection and grouping of parts ; the importance of which is so ably illustrated by Girardin , Price , and other ...
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A Discourse on the Rise Progress Peculiar Objects | 1 |
Memoirs of Samuel Pepys Esq F R S Secretary | 23 |
Absenteeism By Lady Morgan | 54 |
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