 This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle...  Literary Amusements: In Verse and Prose - Page 8by Daniel Webb - 1787 - 76 pagesFull view - About this book
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...— Shepherd and Joyce's Systematic Education. An Honest means of getting a Living. — There seems to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth ; the first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbours — this is robbery ;... | |
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...forty, and perhaps get thirty shillings, for that which cost him but twenty. 12. Finally, there seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, by plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second... | |
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...forty, and perhaps get thirty shillings, for that which cost him but twenty. ' Finally, there seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romaus did, in plundering their conquered neighbours. This is robbery. The... | |
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...demand forty, and perhaps get thirty shillings, for that which cost him but twenty. 'Finally, there seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbours. This is robbery. The... | |
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