Representative Selections: With Introduction, Bibliography, and NotesAmerican Book Company, 1936 - 544 pages |
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Page lxxvi
... Land . There is no other possible Fund " ( cited by Carey , 155 ) . Another reference is found in a letter of 1787 to Alexander Small : " Our Legislators are all Land - holders ; and they are not yet persuaded , that all taxes are ...
... Land . There is no other possible Fund " ( cited by Carey , 155 ) . Another reference is found in a letter of 1787 to Alexander Small : " Our Legislators are all Land - holders ; and they are not yet persuaded , that all taxes are ...
Page 217
... Land being thus plenty in America , and so cheap as that a labouring man , that understands Husbandry , can in a short Time save Money enough to purchase a Piece of new Land sufficient for a Plantation , whereon he may subsist a Family ...
... Land being thus plenty in America , and so cheap as that a labouring man , that understands Husbandry , can in a short Time save Money enough to purchase a Piece of new Land sufficient for a Plantation , whereon he may subsist a Family ...
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... Land , Negroes , Utensils , Stock , or any other kind of Emolument whatsoever . In short , America is the Land of Labour , and by no means what the English call Lubberland , and the French Pays de Cocagne , where the streets are said to ...
... Land , Negroes , Utensils , Stock , or any other kind of Emolument whatsoever . In short , America is the Land of Labour , and by no means what the English call Lubberland , and the French Pays de Cocagne , where the streets are said to ...
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The Age of Enlightenment | xiii |
Franklins Theories of Education | xxxii |
Franklins Literary Theory and Practice | xlvi |
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