Essays and Letters, Volume 2R. & W.A.Bartow & Company, 1822 - American essays |
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... Britain . The labour of slaves can never be so cheap here as the labour of working men is in Britain . Any one may compute it . Interest of money is in the colonies from six to ten per cent . Slaves , one with another , cost 301 ...
... Britain . The labour of slaves can never be so cheap here as the labour of working men is in Britain . Any one may compute it . Interest of money is in the colonies from six to ten per cent . Slaves , one with another , cost 301 ...
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... Britain [ than there are now people in Wales . 3. Loss of trade . Manufactures , exported , draw subsistence from foreign countries for numbers , who are thereby enabled to marry and raise families . If the nation be deprived of any ...
... Britain [ than there are now people in Wales . 3. Loss of trade . Manufactures , exported , draw subsistence from foreign countries for numbers , who are thereby enabled to marry and raise families . If the nation be deprived of any ...
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... Britain . 21. The importation of foreigners into a country that has as many inhabitants as the present employ . ments and provisions for subsistence will bear , will be in the end no increase of people , unless the new comers have more ...
... Britain . 21. The importation of foreigners into a country that has as many inhabitants as the present employ . ments and provisions for subsistence will bear , will be in the end no increase of people , unless the new comers have more ...
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... Britain , but rather many more , on account of the employment the colonies afford to manufacturers at home . This million doubling , suppose but once in twenty five years , will , in another century , be more than the L people of ...
... Britain , but rather many more , on account of the employment the colonies afford to manufacturers at home . This million doubling , suppose but once in twenty five years , will , in another century , be more than the L people of ...
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... Britain is the present treaty for settling the bounds between her colonies and the French ! and how careful should she be to secure room enough , since on the room depends so much the increase of her people ! 23. In fine , a nation well ...
... Britain is the present treaty for settling the bounds between her colonies and the French ! and how careful should she be to secure room enough , since on the room depends so much the increase of her people ! 23. In fine , a nation well ...
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