The Pamphleteer, Volume 8Abraham John Valpy A.J. Valpy, 1816 |
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... taken , or provision made , for any reverse . Temporary depressions of trade occurred ; the numbers that were thus once exposed to hunger and the extreme of misery were too great for private benevolence to succour : so numerous were the ...
... taken , or provision made , for any reverse . Temporary depressions of trade occurred ; the numbers that were thus once exposed to hunger and the extreme of misery were too great for private benevolence to succour : so numerous were the ...
Page 15
... taken as the barometer . It does not seem to have been considered what was likely to result from a practice so degrading : by thus rendering the labourer de- pendent , and compelling him to look to others and not to his own endeavours ...
... taken as the barometer . It does not seem to have been considered what was likely to result from a practice so degrading : by thus rendering the labourer de- pendent , and compelling him to look to others and not to his own endeavours ...
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... taken : my firm belief , however , is that some plan founded on the principles which will govern what I shall have the honor of submitting to the house , would meet with the approbation of a great majority of the lower orders . No ...
... taken : my firm belief , however , is that some plan founded on the principles which will govern what I shall have the honor of submitting to the house , would meet with the approbation of a great majority of the lower orders . No ...
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... taken and educated at the national expense , the boys placed in the navy and army , to serve for a certain period . The girls to be in like wise educated , and each parish in its turn to be required to furnish proper situations to bind ...
... taken and educated at the national expense , the boys placed in the navy and army , to serve for a certain period . The girls to be in like wise educated , and each parish in its turn to be required to furnish proper situations to bind ...
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... taken of the subject , be for the advantage of all parties . It is to be hoped that the price of the necessaries of life will , when once fairly settled , be less subject to those variations which bear so hard on the working classes . I ...
... taken of the subject , be for the advantage of all parties . It is to be hoped that the price of the necessaries of life will , when once fairly settled , be less subject to those variations which bear so hard on the working classes . I ...
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