A Tour in Sweden in 1838: Comprising Observations on the Moral, Political, and Economical State of the Swedish Nation |
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... appear- ances , because government does everything , and allows the people no interest or voice in what is done . The principle and spirit of a government has more influence than its acts upon the well - being and social condition of a ...
... appear- ances , because government does everything , and allows the people no interest or voice in what is done . The principle and spirit of a government has more influence than its acts upon the well - being and social condition of a ...
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... appears to be a little country village , of which the church has been in former days surrounded by some fortification of brickwork . The passengers were accommodated here with very good horses and carriages to Copen- hagen , a distance ...
... appears to be a little country village , of which the church has been in former days surrounded by some fortification of brickwork . The passengers were accommodated here with very good horses and carriages to Copen- hagen , a distance ...
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... appear more out of their natural place . The face of the country is covered with a deep soil somewhat clayey , the under rock protruding but in few places , even on the sea bank , and is raised into gentle swells sufficient to drain it ...
... appear more out of their natural place . The face of the country is covered with a deep soil somewhat clayey , the under rock protruding but in few places , even on the sea bank , and is raised into gentle swells sufficient to drain it ...
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... appears to have been a kind of disease in this government , engendered no doubt by the practice of interfering in every branch of industry with its regulations , to embark on its own account and risk in every sort of scheme and business ...
... appears to have been a kind of disease in this government , engendered no doubt by the practice of interfering in every branch of industry with its regulations , to embark on its own account and risk in every sort of scheme and business ...
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... appears to contain three distinct formations , one of primary granitic rock , one of later formation de- posited upon the first , and containing in its lime- stone and clay - slate , numerous impressions of the extinct molluscæ , and a ...
... appears to contain three distinct formations , one of primary granitic rock , one of later formation de- posited upon the first , and containing in its lime- stone and clay - slate , numerous impressions of the extinct molluscæ , and a ...
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| Title | A Tour in Sweden in 1838: Comprising Observations on the Moral, Political, and Economical State of the Swedish Nation Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature 1450-1850 Making of the modern economy |
| Author | Samuel Laing |
| Publisher | Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1839 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 May 2008 |
| Length | 431 pages |
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