Essays and Letters, Volume 2R. & W.A.Bartow & Company, 1822 - American essays |
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... lands being occupied and im- proved to the height ; those who cannot get land , must labour for others that have it ; when labour- ers are plenty , their wages will be low ; by low wages a family is supported with difficulty ; this ...
... lands being occupied and im- proved to the height ; those who cannot get land , must labour for others that have it ; when labour- ers are plenty , their wages will be low ; by low wages a family is supported with difficulty ; this ...
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... land , sufficient for a plantation , whereon he may subsist a family ; such are not afraid to marry ; for if they even look far enough forward to consider how their children , when grown up , are to be provided for , they see that more land ...
... land , sufficient for a plantation , whereon he may subsist a family ; such are not afraid to marry ; for if they even look far enough forward to consider how their children , when grown up , are to be provided for , they see that more land ...
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... lands , till the island became full of English ; and were the English now driven into Wales by some 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 ...
... lands , till the island became full of English ; and were the English now driven into Wales by some 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 ...
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... land by more or better tillage , providing more food by fisheries securing property , & c . - and the man that invents new trades , arts , or manufactures , or new improvements in husbandry , may be properly called fathers of their ...
... land by more or better tillage , providing more food by fisheries securing property , & c . - and the man that invents new trades , arts , or manufactures , or new improvements in husbandry , may be properly called fathers of their ...
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... land ! What 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 ...
... land ! What 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 ...
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