Essays and Letters, Volume 2R. & W.A.Bartow & Company, 1822 - American essays |
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... 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 ,
... 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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... 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 , and ...
... 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 , and ...
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... luxuries , and needless manufactures , imported and used in a nation , do , by the same rea- soning , increase the people of the nation that fur- nishes them , and diminish the people of the nation that uses them . Laws , therefore ...
... luxuries , and needless manufactures , imported and used in a nation , do , by the same rea- soning , increase the people of the nation that fur- nishes them , and diminish the people of the nation that uses them . Laws , therefore ...
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... luxury in the great increases the nation's manufacturers employed by it , who are many , and , only tends to diminish the families that indulge in it who are few . The greater the common fashionable expense of any rank , of people , the ...
... luxury in the great increases the nation's manufacturers employed by it , who are many , and , only tends to diminish the families that indulge in it who are few . The greater the common fashionable expense of any rank , of people , the ...
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... luxury and expensive living , while the poor are starving , & c . not consider- ing that what the rich expend , the labouring poor receive in payment for their labour . It may seem a paradox if I should assert that our labouring poor do ...
... luxury and expensive living , while the poor are starving , & c . not consider- ing that what the rich expend , the labouring poor receive in payment for their labour . It may seem a paradox if I should assert that our labouring poor do ...
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