Essays and Letters, Volume 2R. & W.A.Bartow & Company, 1822 - American essays |
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... Interest of money is in the colonies from six to ten per cent . Slaves , one with another , cost 301 . sterling per head . Reckon then the interest of the first purchase of a slave , the insurance or risk on his life , his clothing and ...
... Interest of money is in the colonies from six to ten per cent . Slaves , one with another , cost 301 . sterling per head . Reckon then the interest of the first purchase of a slave , the insurance or risk on his life , his clothing and ...
Page 13
... interest of society , said " he would with all his heart subscribe to a voyage intend- ed to communicate in general those benefits which we enjoy to countries destitute of them in the remote parts of the globe . " This proposition being ...
... interest of society , said " he would with all his heart subscribe to a voyage intend- ed to communicate in general those benefits which we enjoy to countries destitute of them in the remote parts of the globe . " This proposition being ...
Page 15
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
Page 16
... interest do , in some degree , concern every one who can say Homo sum , & c . " Scheme of a voyage , by subscription , to convey the conveniences of life , as fowls , hogs , goats , cattle , corn , iron , & c . to those remote regions ...
... interest do , in some degree , concern every one who can say Homo sum , & c . " Scheme of a voyage , by subscription , to convey the conveniences of life , as fowls , hogs , goats , cattle , corn , iron , & c . to those remote regions ...
Page 31
... interest and happiness ; but as the cheapness of other things is owing to the plenty of those things , so the cheapness of labour is in most cases owing to the multitude of labourers , and to their underworking one another in order to ...
... interest and happiness ; but as the cheapness of other things is owing to the plenty of those things , so the cheapness of labour is in most cases owing to the multitude of labourers , and to their underworking one another in order to ...
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