Essays and Letters, Volume 2R. & W.A.Bartow & Company, 1822 - American essays |
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... give his own people room ; -the legislator that makes effectual laws for promoting of trade , increasing em- ployment , improving land by more or better tillage , providing more food by fisheries securing property , & c . - and the man ...
... give his own people room ; -the legislator that makes effectual laws for promoting of trade , increasing em- ployment , improving land by more or better tillage , providing more food by fisheries securing property , & c . - and the man ...
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... gives a bill of fare of the provisions at my daughter's wedding , and pro- claims to all the world , that we had the insolence to eat beef and pudding ! Has he not read the precept in the good book , " Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of ...
... gives a bill of fare of the provisions at my daughter's wedding , and pro- claims to all the world , that we had the insolence to eat beef and pudding ! Has he not read the precept in the good book , " Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of ...
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... 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 the known world ( not even in Scotland or Ire- land ...
... 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 the known world ( not even in Scotland or Ire- land ...
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... give our working people less employment , how can we for what they do pay them higher than we do ? Out of what , fund is the additional price of labour to be paid , when all our present incomes are , as it were , mortgaged to them ...
... give our working people less employment , how can we for what they do pay them higher than we do ? Out of what , fund is the additional price of labour to be paid , when all our present incomes are , as it were , mortgaged to them ...
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... of a few individuals should give way to general interest ; but individuals manage their affairs with so much more application , industry , and his would the y worked have said es ; but 32 FRANKLIN'S ESSAYS AND LETTERS , "
... of a few individuals should give way to general interest ; but individuals manage their affairs with so much more application , industry , and his would the y worked have said es ; but 32 FRANKLIN'S ESSAYS AND LETTERS , "
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