A Tour in Sweden in 1838: Comprising Observations on the Moral, Political, and Economical State of the Swedish Nation |
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... clothing of the country people and labourers , their waggons , harness , and the workmanship of every thing used by the lower and middle classes in wood , iron , leather , or cloth , show a very low state of the useful arts . I re ...
... clothing of the country people and labourers , their waggons , harness , and the workmanship of every thing used by the lower and middle classes in wood , iron , leather , or cloth , show a very low state of the useful arts . I re ...
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... , seven months of the twelve are cut off for all out - door work for the labouring man . He must earn in five months his current subsistence , and also subsistence , fuel , light , and clothing 76 OBSERVATIONS IN SWEDEN .
... , seven months of the twelve are cut off for all out - door work for the labouring man . He must earn in five months his current subsistence , and also subsistence , fuel , light , and clothing 76 OBSERVATIONS IN SWEDEN .
Page 77
... clothing , for the seven months in which he has no constant work . To save this requires more steadiness and forethought than is found among the labouring class here , and they die not perhaps directly from starvation , but indirectly ...
... clothing , for the seven months in which he has no constant work . To save this requires more steadiness and forethought than is found among the labouring class here , and they die not perhaps directly from starvation , but indirectly ...
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... The subject is curious . Suppose a hundred emi- grants landed upon an island in the mouth of the Swan river , and that five or six betook themselves to the making of clothes and hatchets for the rest OBSERVATIONS IN SWEDEN . 79.
... The subject is curious . Suppose a hundred emi- grants landed upon an island in the mouth of the Swan river , and that five or six betook themselves to the making of clothes and hatchets for the rest OBSERVATIONS IN SWEDEN . 79.
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... clothes and hatchets for the rest , would it be very absurd in principle if the five or six were to say to the others , " We have all landed in this little world of ours , equal in our natural rights - no man has a better right than ...
... clothes and hatchets for the rest , would it be very absurd in principle if the five or six were to say to the others , " We have all landed in this little world of ours , equal in our natural rights - no man has a better right than ...
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