Essays and Letters, Volume 2R. & W.A.Bartow & Company, 1822 - American essays |
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... Europe , suit new countries , e America , 2. For people increase in proportion to the num ber of marriages , and that is greater , in proportion to the ease and convenience of supporting a family . When families can be easily supported ...
... Europe , suit new countries , e America , 2. For people increase in proportion to the num ber of marriages , and that is greater , in proportion to the ease and convenience of supporting a family . When families can be easily supported ...
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... Europe is fully settled with hus- bandmen , manufacturers , & c . and therefore cannot now much increase in people . America is chiefly occupied by Indians , who subsist mostly by hunting . But as the hunters of all men , requires the ...
... Europe is fully settled with hus- bandmen , manufacturers , & c . and therefore cannot now much increase in people . America is chiefly occupied by Indians , who subsist mostly by hunting . But as the hunters of all men , requires the ...
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... Europe . And if it is reckoned there , that there is but one marriage per annum among one hundred persons , perhaps we may here reckon two ; and if in Europe they have but four births to a marriage , ( many of their mar- riages being ...
... Europe . And if it is reckoned there , that there is but one marriage per annum among one hundred persons , perhaps we may here reckon two ; and if in Europe they have but four births to a marriage , ( many of their mar- riages being ...
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... people , and diminishing its neighbours . 17. Some European nations prudently refuse to con sume the manufactures of East India : -they should likewise forbid them to their colonies ; for the gain COMMERCIAL AND POLITICAL .
... people , and diminishing its neighbours . 17. Some European nations prudently refuse to con sume the manufactures of East India : -they should likewise forbid them to their colonies ; for the gain COMMERCIAL AND POLITICAL .
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... Europe . I thought this might be in favour of Old England ; and that now we should get a good price for our grain , which would bring millions among us , and make us flow in money that to be sure is scarce enough . t But the wisdom of ...
... Europe . I thought this might be in favour of Old England ; and that now we should get a good price for our grain , which would bring millions among us , and make us flow in money that to be sure is scarce enough . t But the wisdom of ...
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