Essays and Letters, Volume 2R. & W.A.Bartow & Company, 1822 - American essays |
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... able to afford our labourers higher wages , if you will not allow us to get , when we might have it , a higher price for our corn ? By all that I can learn , we should at least have had a guinea a quarter more , if the exportation had ...
... able to afford our labourers higher wages , if you will not allow us to get , when we might have it , a higher price for our corn ? By all that I can learn , we should at least have had a guinea a quarter more , if the exportation had ...
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... able to purchase and enjoy luxuries a great spur to labour and indus- try ? May not luxury , therefore , produce more than it consumes , if , without such a spur , people would be , as they are naturally enough inclined to be , lazy and ...
... able to purchase and enjoy luxuries a great spur to labour and indus- try ? May not luxury , therefore , produce more than it consumes , if , without such a spur , people would be , as they are naturally enough inclined to be , lazy and ...
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... able to bear it . This however is a mistake . The public treasure is the treasure of the nation , to be applied to national purposes . And when a duty is laid for a particular public and ne- cessary purpose , if , through smuggling ...
... able to bear it . This however is a mistake . The public treasure is the treasure of the nation , to be applied to national purposes . And when a duty is laid for a particular public and ne- cessary purpose , if , through smuggling ...
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... able to bear it . The king has as much right to justice as the meanest of his subjects ; and as he is truly the common father of his people , those that rob him fall under the scripture wo , pronounced against the son that robbeth his ...
... able to bear it . The king has as much right to justice as the meanest of his subjects ; and as he is truly the common father of his people , those that rob him fall under the scripture wo , pronounced against the son that robbeth his ...
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... able , and ought to be willing , to offer him such wages as may induce him to afford his service voluntarily . - Page 159. " Private mischief must be borne with patience , for preventing a national calamity . " - Where is this maxim in ...
... able , and ought to be willing , to offer him such wages as may induce him to afford his service voluntarily . - Page 159. " Private mischief must be borne with patience , for preventing a national calamity . " - Where is this maxim in ...
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