Essays and Letters, Volume 2R. & W.A.Bartow & Company, 1822 - American essays |
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... subsistence of the natives , discourages their marriages , and so gradually diminishes them , while the foreigners in- crease . 2. Loss of territory . Thus the Britons , being driven into Wales , and crowded together in a barren country ...
... subsistence of the natives , discourages their marriages , and so gradually diminishes them , while the foreigners in- crease . 2. Loss of territory . Thus the Britons , being driven into Wales , and crowded together in a barren country ...
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... subsistence in the country is lessened , and the support of a family be comes more difficult . So heavy taxes tend to die minish a people . 6. The introduction of slaves . The negroes , brought into the English sugar islands have ...
... subsistence in the country is lessened , and the support of a family be comes more difficult . So heavy taxes tend to die minish a people . 6. The introduction of slaves . The negroes , brought into the English sugar islands have ...
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... subsistence . 16. Foreign luxuries , and needless manufactures , imported and used in a nation , do , by the same ... subsistence , they encourage marriage . Such laws likewise strengthen a country doubly , by increasing its own people ...
... subsistence . 16. Foreign luxuries , and needless manufactures , imported and used in a nation , do , by the same ... subsistence , they encourage marriage . Such laws likewise strengthen a country doubly , by increasing its own people ...
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... subsistence . 20. If there be a sect , therefore , in our nation , that regard frugality and industry as religious ... subsistence will bear , will be in the end no increase of people , unless the new comers have more industry and ...
... subsistence . 20. If there be a sect , therefore , in our nation , that regard frugality and industry as religious ... subsistence will bear , will be in the end no increase of people , unless the new comers have more industry and ...
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... subsistence . Was the face of the earth vacant of other plants , it might be gradually sowed and over- spread with one kind only , as for instance , with fen- nel ; and were it empty of other inhabitants , it might , in a few ages , be ...
... subsistence . Was the face of the earth vacant of other plants , it might be gradually sowed and over- spread with one kind only , as for instance , with fen- nel ; and were it empty of other inhabitants , it might , in a few ages , be ...
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