Essays and Letters, Volume 2R. & W.A.Bartow & Company, 1822 - American essays |
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... of a family ; which charges are greater in cities , as luxury is more com- mon many live single during life , and continue servants to families , journeymen to trades , & c . C Hence cities do not , by natural generation ,
... of a family ; which charges are greater in cities , as luxury is more com- mon many live single during life , and continue servants to families , journeymen to trades , & c . C Hence cities do not , by natural generation ,
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... continue servants and single . Only , as the ci- ties take supplies of people from the country , and thereby make a little more room in the country , marriage is a little more encouraged there , and the births exceed the deaths . 5 ...
... continue servants and single . Only , as the ci- ties take supplies of people from the country , and thereby make a little more room in the country , marriage is a little more encouraged there , and the births exceed the deaths . 5 ...
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... continues long a journey- man to a 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 ...
... continues long a journey- man to a 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 ...
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... continues to be the same as if such laws had never been made in their favour . Much malignant censure have some writers bes- towed upon the rich for their luxury and expensive living , while the poor are starving , & c . not consider ...
... continues to be the same as if such laws had never been made in their favour . Much malignant censure have some writers bes- towed upon the rich for their luxury and expensive living , while the poor are starving , & c . not consider ...
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... continue old taxes , but oft- en to look out for new ones , perhaps it may not be unuseful to state this matter in a light that few seem to have considered it in . The people of Great Britain , under the happy constitution of this ...
... continue old taxes , but oft- en to look out for new ones , perhaps it may not be unuseful to state this matter in a light that few seem to have considered it in . The people of Great Britain , under the happy constitution of this ...
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