Essays and Letters, Volume 2R. & W.A.Bartow & Company, 1822 - American essays |
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... occasion- ally marked on the same boards . Thus the officers , appointed to collect the accounts in each district have only to pass before the doors , and enter into their book what they find marked on the board , with- out giving the ...
... occasion- ally marked on the same boards . Thus the officers , appointed to collect the accounts in each district have only to pass before the doors , and enter into their book what they find marked on the board , with- out giving the ...
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... occasions then so much want and misery ? It is the employment of men and women in works that produce neither the necessaries nor convenien- ces of life , who , with those who do nothing , consume necessaries raised by the laborious . To ...
... occasions then so much want and misery ? It is the employment of men and women in works that produce neither the necessaries nor convenien- ces of life , who , with those who do nothing , consume necessaries raised by the laborious . To ...
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... occasions . Look round the world , and see the millions em- ployed in doing nothing , or in something that amounts to nothing , when the necessaries and conveniences of life are in question . What is the bulk of com- merce , for which ...
... occasions . Look round the world , and see the millions em- ployed in doing nothing , or in something that amounts to nothing , when the necessaries and conveniences of life are in question . What is the bulk of com- merce , for which ...
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... occasion , makes it necessary , not only to continue old taxes , but oft- en to look out for new ones , perhaps it may not be unuseful to state this matter in a light that few seem to have considered it in . The people of Great Britain ...
... occasion , makes it necessary , not only to continue old taxes , but oft- en to look out for new ones , perhaps it may not be unuseful to state this matter in a light that few seem to have considered it in . The people of Great Britain ...
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... occasions of war , and the inducements to it , should be diminished . If rapine be abolished , one of the encouragements to war is taken away ; and peace therefore more likely to continue and be lasting . The practice of robbing ...
... occasions of war , and the inducements to it , should be diminished . If rapine be abolished , one of the encouragements to war is taken away ; and peace therefore more likely to continue and be lasting . The practice of robbing ...
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