Essays and Letters, Volume 2R. & W.A.Bartow & Company, 1822 - American essays |
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... common fashionable expense of any rank , of people , the more cautious , they are of marriage . Therefore luxury should never be suffered to become common . 19. The great increase of offspring in particular families is not always owing ...
... common fashionable expense of any rank , of people , the more cautious , they are of marriage . Therefore luxury should never be suffered to become common . 19. The great increase of offspring in particular families is not always owing ...
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... common interest of humanity ? " Those who think it their duty to ask bread and other blessings daily from Heaven , would they not think it equally a duty , to communicate of those blessings when they have received them , and show their ...
... common interest of humanity ? " Those who think it their duty to ask bread and other blessings daily from Heaven , would they not think it equally a duty , to communicate of those blessings when they have received them , and show their ...
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... common humanity . In justice , then , to this country , give me leave to remark , that the condition of the poor here is by far the best in Europe ; for that , except in England and her American colonies , there is not in any country in ...
... common humanity . In justice , then , to this country , give me leave to remark , that the condition of the poor here is by far the best in Europe ; for that , except in England and her American colonies , there is not in any country in ...
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... common benefit , advantage , and safety of the nation , for the security of our liberties , property , religion , and every thing that is dear to us , that certain sums shall be yearly raised by taxes , duties , & c . and paid into the ...
... common benefit , advantage , and safety of the nation , for the security of our liberties , property , religion , and every thing that is dear to us , that certain sums shall be yearly raised by taxes , duties , & c . and paid into the ...
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... common father of his people , those that rob him fall under the scripture wo , pronounced against the son that robbeth his father , and saith it is no sin Mean as this practice is , do we not daily see peo- ple of character and fortune ...
... common father of his people , those that rob him fall under the scripture wo , pronounced against the son that robbeth his father , and saith it is no sin Mean as this practice is , do we not daily see peo- ple of character and fortune ...
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