Essays and Letters, Volume 2R. & W.A.Bartow & Company, 1822 - American essays |
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... trades , occupations , and offices are full , many delay marrying till they can see how to bear the charges of a family ; which charges are greater in cities , as luxury is more com- mon many live single during life , and continue ...
... trades , occupations , and offices are full , many delay marrying till they can see how to bear the charges of a family ; which charges are greater in cities , as luxury is more com- mon many live single during life , and continue ...
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... trade , but goes among those new settlers , and sets up for himself , & c . Hence labour is no cheaper now in Pennsylvania , than it was thirty years . ago , though so many thousand labouring people have been imported from Germany and ...
... trade , but goes among those new settlers , and sets up for himself , & c . Hence labour is no cheaper now in Pennsylvania , than it was thirty years . ago , though so many thousand labouring people have been imported from Germany and ...
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... trades that depend on labour , manufactures , & c . is too remote to require the attention of Great Britain . 10 ... trade should be to her colonies . * * * * * * 12. It is an ill - grounded opinion , that , by the la- bour of slaves ...
... trades that depend on labour , manufactures , & c . is too remote to require the attention of Great Britain . 10 ... trade should be to her colonies . * * * * * * 12. It is an ill - grounded opinion , that , by the la- bour of slaves ...
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... trade . Manufactures , exported , draw subsistence from foreign countries for numbers , who are thereby enabled to marry and raise families . If the nation be deprived of any branch of trade , and no new employment is found for the ...
... trade . Manufactures , exported , draw subsistence from foreign countries for numbers , who are thereby enabled to marry and raise families . If the nation be deprived of any branch of trade , and no new employment is found for the ...
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... trade , increasing em- ployment , improving land by more or better tillage , providing more food by fisheries securing property , & c . - and the man that invents new trades , arts , or manufactures , or new improvements in husbandry ...
... trade , increasing em- ployment , improving land by more or better tillage , providing more food by fisheries securing property , & c . - and the man that invents new trades , arts , or manufactures , or new improvements in husbandry ...
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