Essays and Letters, Volume 2R. & W.A.Bartow & Company, 1822 - American essays |
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... Pennsylvania , than it was thirty years . ago , though so many thousand labouring people have been imported from Germany and Ireland . 9. The danger therefore of these colonies interfer- ing with A 2 COMMERCIAL AND POLITICAL . 5.
... Pennsylvania , than it was thirty years . ago , though so many thousand labouring people have been imported from Germany and Ireland . 9. The danger therefore of these colonies interfer- ing with A 2 COMMERCIAL AND POLITICAL . 5.
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... colonies . * * * * * * 12. It is an ill - grounded opinion , that , by the la- bour of slaves , America may possibly vie in cheap- ness of manufactures with Britain . The labour of slaves can never be so cheap here as the labour of ...
... colonies . * * * * * * 12. It is an ill - grounded opinion , that , by the la- bour of slaves , America may possibly vie in cheap- ness of manufactures with Britain . The labour of slaves can never be so cheap here as the labour of ...
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... colonies having few slaves , increase in whites . Slaves also pejorate the families that use them ; the white children become proud , disgusted with labour , and , being educated in idleness , are ren- dered unfit to get a living by ...
... colonies having few slaves , increase in whites . Slaves also pejorate the families that use them ; the white children become proud , disgusted with labour , and , being educated in idleness , are ren- dered unfit to get a living by ...
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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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Benjamin Franklin. likewise forbid them to their colonies ; for the gain to the merchant is not to be compared with the loss , by this means , of people to the nation . 18. Home luxury in the great increases the nation's manufacturers ...
Benjamin Franklin. likewise forbid them to their colonies ; for the gain to the merchant is not to be compared with the loss , by this means , of people to the nation . 18. Home luxury in the great increases the nation's manufacturers ...
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