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It is scarcely pos** Such is the merit and charm of the volumes sible to open the book without seeing useful and before us , they place us at once by the side of the lively remarks , or descriptions indescribably de . author , and bring ...
It is scarcely pos** Such is the merit and charm of the volumes sible to open the book without seeing useful and before us , they place us at once by the side of the lively remarks , or descriptions indescribably de . author , and bring ...
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A NEW SYSTEM of GEOLOGY , in which the great Revolutions of the Earth and Animated Nature are reconciled at once to Modern Science and to Sacred History . By ANDREW URE , M.D. F.R.S. Member of the Geol . and Astron .
A NEW SYSTEM of GEOLOGY , in which the great Revolutions of the Earth and Animated Nature are reconciled at once to Modern Science and to Sacred History . By ANDREW URE , M.D. F.R.S. Member of the Geol . and Astron .
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The circumstances which encourage and make easy , or which discourage and obstruct the production of wealth , taking this new and enlarged view of it , became at once the objects of anxious enquiry and speculation .
The circumstances which encourage and make easy , or which discourage and obstruct the production of wealth , taking this new and enlarged view of it , became at once the objects of anxious enquiry and speculation .
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... know was itself at once elevated by the success of his work to a rank among the great objects of the intellectual efforts of mankind , which it is little likely ever again to lose ; and which , we must hope , will , at some future ...
... know was itself at once elevated by the success of his work to a rank among the great objects of the intellectual efforts of mankind , which it is little likely ever again to lose ; and which , we must hope , will , at some future ...
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With the commanding influence of superior talent , he had fixed at once the attention of the world on a physical power possessed by the human race , of multiplying its aggregate numbers ; which , if long exerted to its greatest extent ...
With the commanding influence of superior talent , he had fixed at once the attention of the world on a physical power possessed by the human race , of multiplying its aggregate numbers ; which , if long exerted to its greatest extent ...
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| Title | An Essay on the Distribution of Wealth and on the Sources of Taxation. By the Rev. Richard Jones ..., Volume 1 An Essay on the Distribution of Wealth, and on the Sources of Taxation, Richard Jones Books for college libraries Issue 26666 of Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature "Essay on the distribution of wealth ... Part I.--Rent." |
| Author | Richard Jones |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1831 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 6 May 2008 |
| Length | 329 pages |
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