Essays and Letters, Volume 2R. & W.A.Bartow & Company, 1822 - American essays |
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... commerce is , where equal values are ex- changed for equal , the expense of transport includ- ed . Thus , if it costs A in England as much labour and charge to raise a bushel of wheat , as it costs B in France to produce four gallons of ...
... commerce is , where equal values are ex- changed for equal , the expense of transport includ- ed . Thus , if it costs A in England as much labour and charge to raise a bushel of wheat , as it costs B in France to produce four gallons of ...
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... commerce , which is generally cheating . The third by agricul- ture , the only honest way , wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground , in a kind of continual miracle wrought by the hand of God in his ...
... commerce , which is generally cheating . The third by agricul- ture , the only honest way , wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground , in a kind of continual miracle wrought by the hand of God in his ...
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... commerce , an assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth . I have not yet , indeed , thought of a remedy for luxury . I am not sure that in a great state it is ca- pable of a remedy , nor that the evil is in itself always so ...
... commerce , an assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth . I have not yet , indeed , thought of a remedy for luxury . I am not sure that in a great state it is ca- pable of a remedy , nor that the evil is in itself always so ...
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... commerce is , I confess , a lit- tle in this way . We sell our victuals to the islands for rum and sugar ; the substantial necessaries of life for superfluities . But we have plenty , and live well nevertheless ; though , by being ...
... commerce is , I confess , a lit- tle in this way . We sell our victuals to the islands for rum and sugar ; the substantial necessaries of life for superfluities . But we have plenty , and live well nevertheless ; though , by being ...
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... commerce , from the constant remittance of their gold and silver to Britain . But not only the interest of a particular body of merchants , but the in- terest of any small body of British tradesmen or arti- ficers , has been found ...
... commerce , from the constant remittance of their gold and silver to Britain . But not only the interest of a particular body of merchants , but the in- terest of any small body of British tradesmen or arti- ficers , has been found ...
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