A Tour in Sweden in 1838: Comprising Observations on the Moral, Political, and Economical State of the Swedish Nation |
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The 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 . member ...
The 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 . member ...
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In this climate , also , 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 , a and also subsistence , fuel , light , and clothing 76 OBSERVATIONS ...
In this climate , also , 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 , a and also subsistence , fuel , light , and clothing 76 OBSERVATIONS ...
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and also subsistence , fuel , light , and 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 ...
and also subsistence , fuel , light , and 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 ...
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Suppose a hundred emigrants 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.
Suppose a hundred emigrants 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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to the making of 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 ...
to the making of 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 ...
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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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