Essays and Letters, Volume 2R. & W.A.Bartow & Company, 1822 - American essays |
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... means deprived of employment , while a few families acquire vast estates , which they spend on foreign luxuries ; and , educating their children in the habit of those luxuries , the same income is needed for the support of one that ...
... means deprived of employment , while a few families acquire vast estates , which they spend on foreign luxuries ; and , educating their children in the habit of those luxuries , the same income is needed for the support of one that ...
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... means provided for their subsistence . 16. Foreign 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 ...
... means provided for their subsistence . 16. Foreign 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 ...
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... means , of people to the nation . 18. Home 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 ...
... means , of people to the nation . 18. Home 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 ...
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... means of subsistence . Was the face of the earth vacant of other plants , it might be gradually sowed and over- spread with one kind only , as for instance , with fen- nel ; and were it empty of other inhabitants , it might , in a few ...
... means of subsistence . Was the face of the earth vacant of other plants , it might be gradually sowed and over- spread with one kind only , as for instance , with fen- nel ; and were it empty of other inhabitants , it might , in a few ...
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... means become a wealthy and a mighty na- tion , abounding in all good things . Does not some duty hence arise from us towards other countries , still remaining in our former state ? " Britain is now the first maritime power in the world ...
... means become a wealthy and a mighty na- tion , abounding in all good things . Does not some duty hence arise from us towards other countries , still remaining in our former state ? " Britain is now the first maritime power in the world ...
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