Essays and Letters, Volume 2R. & W.A.Bartow & Company, 1822 - American essays |
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... never be cheap here , where no man con- tinues long a labourer for others , but gets a planta- tion of his own ; no man continues long a journey- man to a trade , but goes among those new settlers , and sets up for himself , & c . Hence ...
... never be cheap here , where no man con- tinues long a labourer for others , but gets a planta- tion of his own ; no man continues long a journey- man to a trade , but goes among those new settlers , and sets up for himself , & c . Hence ...
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... never be so cheap here as the labour of working men is in Britain . Any one may compute it . Interest of money is in the colonies from six to ten per cent . Slaves , one with another , cost 301 . sterling per head . Reckon then the ...
... never be so cheap here as the labour of working men is in Britain . Any one may compute it . Interest of money is in the colonies from six to ten per cent . Slaves , one with another , cost 301 . sterling per head . Reckon then the ...
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... never be suffered to become common . 19. The great increase of offspring in particular families is not always owing to greater fecundity of nature , but sometimes to examples of industry in the heads , and industrious education , by ...
... never be suffered to become common . 19. The great increase of offspring in particular families is not always owing to greater fecundity of nature , but sometimes to examples of industry in the heads , and industrious education , by ...
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... 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- ing that what the rich expend , the labouring ...
... 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- ing that what the rich expend , the labouring ...
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... never think of the other . Saint Monday is generally as duly kept by our work- ing people as Sunday ; the only difference is , that instead of employing it cheaply at church , they are wasting it expensively at the alehouse . I am , sir ...
... never think of the other . Saint Monday is generally as duly kept by our work- ing people as Sunday ; the only difference is , that instead of employing it cheaply at church , they are wasting it expensively at the alehouse . I am , sir ...
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