Essays and Letters, Volume 2R. & W.A.Bartow & Company, 1822 - American essays |
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... foreign nation , there would , in a few years , be no more Englishmen in Britain [ than there are now people in Wales . 3. Loss of trade . Manufactures , exported , draw subsistence from foreign countries for numbers , who are thereby ...
... foreign nation , there would , in a few years , be no more Englishmen in Britain [ than there are now people in Wales . 3. Loss of trade . Manufactures , exported , draw subsistence from foreign countries for numbers , who are thereby ...
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... foreign luxuries ; and , educating their children in the habit of those luxuries , the same income is needed for the support of one that might have main- tained one hundred . The whites , who have slaves , not labouring , are enfeebled ...
... foreign luxuries ; and , educating their children in the habit of those luxuries , the same income is needed for the support of one that might have main- tained one hundred . The whites , who have slaves , not labouring , are enfeebled ...
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... Foreign luxuries , and needless manufactures , imported and used in a nation , do , by the same rea- soning ... foreign countries , may be called ( with respect to the people that make them ) generative laws , as , by increasing ...
... Foreign luxuries , and needless manufactures , imported and used in a nation , do , by the same rea- soning ... foreign countries , may be called ( with respect to the people that make them ) generative laws , as , by increasing ...
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... more easily carried to a foreign market , and by their means our traders may more easily Cheat strangers . Few , where it is not made , are judges of the value of lace . The importer may 20 FRANKLIN'S ESSAYS AND LETTERS ,
... more easily carried to a foreign market , and by their means our traders may more easily Cheat strangers . Few , where it is not made , are judges of the value of lace . The importer may 20 FRANKLIN'S ESSAYS AND LETTERS ,
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... foreign markets ; but that , Messieurs the Public , your laws will not permit . It must be kept all at home , that our dear manufactur- ers may have it the cheaper ; and then , having your selves thus lessened our encouragement for ...
... foreign markets ; but that , Messieurs the Public , your laws will not permit . It must be kept all at home , that our dear manufactur- ers may have it the cheaper ; and then , having your selves thus lessened our encouragement for ...
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