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... increasing em- ployment , improving land by more or better tillage , providing more food by fisheries securing property ... increase the people of the nation that fur- niskes them , and diminish the people of the nation that uses them ...
... increasing em- ployment , improving land by more or better tillage , providing more food by fisheries securing property ... increase the people of the nation that fur- niskes them , and diminish the people of the nation that uses them ...
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... increase of offspring in particular families is not always owing to greater fecundity of nature , but sometimes to examples of industry in the heads , and industrious education , by which the chil- dren are enabled to provide better for ...
... increase of offspring in particular families is not always owing to greater fecundity of nature , but sometimes to examples of industry in the heads , and industrious education , by which the chil- dren are enabled to provide better for ...
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... increase of trade and navigation ! What numbers of ships and seamen ! We have been here but little more than a hundred years , and yet the force of our privateers in the late war , united , was greater , both in men and guns , than that ...
... increase of trade and navigation ! What numbers of ships and seamen ! We have been here but little more than a hundred years , and yet the force of our privateers in the late war , united , was greater , both in men and guns , than that ...
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On the criminal laws and the practice of privateering | 51 |
A dialogue between Great Britain France Spain | 107 |
The internal state of America being a true descrip | 121 |
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