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Benjamin Franklin. BY Dr. Benje Franklin . VOL . ΠΙ RWestall del POOR RICHARD NDEPENDENCE ABDurand Se BY- DR . B. FRANKLIN . PART II . Commercial. New York Published by R & W A. Bartow . ESSAYS.
Benjamin Franklin. BY Dr. Benje Franklin . VOL . ΠΙ RWestall del POOR RICHARD NDEPENDENCE ABDurand Se BY- DR . B. FRANKLIN . PART II . Commercial. New York Published by R & W A. Bartow . ESSAYS.
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... poor are by this means deprived of employment , while a few families acquire vast estates , which they spend on foreign luxuries ; and , educating their children in the habit of those luxuries , the same income is needed for the support ...
... poor are by this means deprived of employment , while a few families acquire vast estates , which they spend on foreign luxuries ; and , educating their children in the habit of those luxuries , the same income is needed for the support ...
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... poor people , who , however distant from us , are in truth related to us , and whose 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 ...
... poor people , who , however distant from us , are in truth related to us , and whose 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 ...
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... POOR . To Messieurs the Public . I AM one of that class of people that feeds you all , and at present is abused by you all ; in short , I am a farmer . By your newspapers we are told that God had sent a very short harvest to some other ...
... POOR . To Messieurs the Public . I AM one of that class of people that feeds you all , and at present is abused by you all ; in short , I am a farmer . By your newspapers we are told that God had sent a very short harvest to some other ...
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... poor may have it so much cheaper . . This operates then as a tax for the maintenance of the poor . A very good thing , you will say . But I ask , why a partial tax ? why laid on us farmers only ? If it be a good thing , pray , Messieurs ...
... poor may have it so much cheaper . . This operates then as a tax for the maintenance of the poor . A very good thing , you will say . But I ask , why a partial tax ? why laid on us farmers only ? If it be a good thing , pray , Messieurs ...
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