Essays and Letters, Band 2R. & W.A.Bartow & Company, 1822 |
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... farmer . By your newspapers we are told that God had sent a very short harvest to some other countries of Europe . I thought this might be in favour of Old England ; and that now we should get a good price for our grain , which would ...
... farmer . By your newspapers we are told that God had sent a very short harvest to some other countries of Europe . I thought this might be in favour of Old England ; and that now we should get a good price for our grain , which would ...
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... farmers the only people to be grudged the profits of our honest labour ? And why ? One of the late scribblers against us gives a bill of fare of the provisions at my daughter's wedding , and pro- claims to all the world , that we had ...
... farmers the only people to be grudged the profits of our honest labour ? And why ? One of the late scribblers against us gives a bill of fare of the provisions at my daughter's wedding , and pro- claims to all the world , that we had ...
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... farmers submitted to the prohibition on the exportation of wool , being made to expect and believe that when the manufacturer bought his wool cheaper , they should also have their cloth cheaper . But the deuce a bit . It has been ...
... farmers submitted to the prohibition on the exportation of wool , being made to expect and believe that when the manufacturer bought his wool cheaper , they should also have their cloth cheaper . But the deuce a bit . It has been ...
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... farmers must take so much less , that the poor may have it so much cheaper . . This operates then as a tax for the maintenance of the poor . A very good thing , you will say . But I ask , why a partial tax ? why laid on us farmers only ...
... farmers must take so much less , that the poor may have it so much cheaper . . This operates then as a tax for the maintenance of the poor . A very good thing , you will say . But I ask , why a partial tax ? why laid on us farmers only ...
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... farmer ; " but you do not tell all the story . I think the cap was never- theless an advantage to us , for it was the first thing that put our girls upon knitting worsted mittens for sale at Philadelphia , that they might have where ...
... farmer ; " but you do not tell all the story . I think the cap was never- theless an advantage to us , for it was the first thing that put our girls upon knitting worsted mittens for sale at Philadelphia , that they might have where ...
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