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... per- sons ( I know not in what part of the world ) who spend every moment of their lives , and every turn of their * Edward Waters and John Harding . F. thoughts while they are awake ( and probably of their A MEMORIAL , & c . H.
... per- sons ( I know not in what part of the world ) who spend every moment of their lives , and every turn of their * Edward Waters and John Harding . F. thoughts while they are awake ( and probably of their A MEMORIAL , & c . H.
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... live without running in debt . Our absentees were but few we had great indulgence in trade , and a considera- ble share in employments of church and state ; and while the short leases continued , which were let some years after the war ...
... live without running in debt . Our absentees were but few we had great indulgence in trade , and a considera- ble share in employments of church and state ; and while the short leases continued , which were let some years after the war ...
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... live , at lower expense for food and cloathing , than he did be- fore . I have been the larger upon this first head , because the same observations will clear up and strengthen a good deal of what I shall affirm upon the rest . The ...
... live , at lower expense for food and cloathing , than he did be- fore . I have been the larger upon this first head , because the same observations will clear up and strengthen a good deal of what I shall affirm upon the rest . The ...
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... live below their incomes , have no other way to dispose of their savings but by mortgage or purchase , by which the rates of land must naturally increase ; and if this trade continues long , under the uncertainty of rents , the landed ...
... live below their incomes , have no other way to dispose of their savings but by mortgage or purchase , by which the rates of land must naturally increase ; and if this trade continues long , under the uncertainty of rents , the landed ...
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... live here , or in England , if a family could be as cheaply maintained in the one as the other . As to eatables , they are as cheap in many fine counties of England , as in some very indifferent ones here ; or , if there be any ...
... live here , or in England , if a family could be as cheaply maintained in the one as the other . As to eatables , they are as cheap in many fine counties of England , as in some very indifferent ones here ; or , if there be any ...
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Página 8 - Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded: but ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh...
Página 26 - A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends, and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish...
Página 28 - Then as to the females, it would, I think with humble submission, be a loss to the public, because they soon would become breeders themselves: and besides, it is not improbable that some scrupulous people might be apt to censure such a practice (although indeed very unjustly) as a little bordering upon cruelty; which, I confess, hath always been with me the strongest objection against any project, how well soever intended.
Página 28 - ... to persons of quality as a prime dainty; and that in his time the body of a plump girl of fifteen, who was crucified for an attempt to poison the emperor, was sold to his Imperial Majesty's prime minister of state, and other great mandarins of the court, in joints from the gibbet, at four hundred crowns.
Página 23 - IT is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads, and cabin doors crowed with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags, and importuning every passenger for an alms.
Página 24 - There only remain a hundred and twenty thousand children of poor parents annually born. The question therefore is how this number shall be reared and provided for? which, as I have already said, under the present situation of affairs, is utterly impossible by all the methods hitherto proposed. For we can neither...
Página 29 - ... as I have already observed, it would greatly lessen the number of Papists, with whom we are yearly overrun, being the principal breeders of the nation, as well as our most dangerous enemies, and who stay at home on purpose...
Página 90 - O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united! For in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they digged down a wall. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
Página 26 - London that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.
Página 35 - Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand ; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive : for the heart of this people is •waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed ; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.