Essays and Letters, Volume 2R. & W.A.Bartow & Company, 1822 - American essays |
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... more easily carried to a foreign market , and by their means our traders may more easily Cheat strangers . Few , where it is not made , are judges of the value of lace . The importer may 20 FRANKLIN'S ESSAYS AND LETTERS ,
... more easily carried to a foreign market , and by their means our traders may more easily Cheat strangers . Few , where it is not made , are judges of the value of lace . The importer may 20 FRANKLIN'S ESSAYS AND LETTERS ,
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Benjamin Franklin. judges of the value of lace . The importer may de- mand forty , and perhaps get thirty shillings for that which cost him but twenty . 12. Finally , there seem to be but three ways for a nation to a quire wealth . The ...
Benjamin Franklin. judges of the value of lace . The importer may de- mand forty , and perhaps get thirty shillings for that which cost him but twenty . 12. Finally , there seem to be but three ways for a nation to a quire wealth . The ...
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... judge by the acts , arrets , and edicts , all the world over , for regulating commerce , an assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth . I have not yet , indeed , thought of a remedy for luxury . I am not sure that in a great ...
... judge by the acts , arrets , and edicts , all the world over , for regulating commerce , an assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth . I have not yet , indeed , thought of a remedy for luxury . I am not sure that in a great ...
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... Judge Foster's celebrated argument in favour of the impressing of seamen ( published in the folio edition of his works . ) JUDGE FOSTER , p . 158. " Every man . ' -The con- clusion here , from the whole to a part , does not seem to be ...
... Judge Foster's celebrated argument in favour of the impressing of seamen ( published in the folio edition of his works . ) JUDGE FOSTER , p . 158. " Every man . ' -The con- clusion here , from the whole to a part , does not seem to be ...
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... judges ; and , opening the red book , I would press every civil officer of government from 50l . a year salary , up to 50,000l . which would throw an immense sum into our treasury : and these gentlemen could not complain , since they ...
... judges ; and , opening the red book , I would press every civil officer of government from 50l . a year salary , up to 50,000l . which would throw an immense sum into our treasury : and these gentlemen could not complain , since they ...
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