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... country . This principle of doing everything for the people and nothing by them , keeps a nation behind in real civilisation , - appearances its go- notwithstanding the external vernment may display 8 OBSERVATIONS IN SWEDEN .
... country . This principle of doing everything for the people and nothing by them , keeps a nation behind in real civilisation , - appearances its go- notwithstanding the external vernment may display 8 OBSERVATIONS IN SWEDEN .
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... keep the fields , even of clay soil , dry and free from surface water . Between winter and spring , a country looks its worst , but this is evi- dently a fertile land , easily farmed , being naturally drained , unincumbered with fast ...
... keep the fields , even of clay soil , dry and free from surface water . Between winter and spring , a country looks its worst , but this is evi- dently a fertile land , easily farmed , being naturally drained , unincumbered with fast ...
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... keeping in order , and in a neat state , all his property . I observe that not one house has runs or water spouts at the roof , and very few porches with benches at the door , for the house - father to sit on and smoke his pipe in the ...
... keeping in order , and in a neat state , all his property . I observe that not one house has runs or water spouts at the roof , and very few porches with benches at the door , for the house - father to sit on and smoke his pipe in the ...
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... keep back the developement of those habits , as compared to its poorer and more ignorant neighbour . Christinehamn , June . - Wishing to see more of this little ocean , the Wener , I came to this small port upon it , about 35 miles from ...
... keep back the developement of those habits , as compared to its poorer and more ignorant neighbour . Christinehamn , June . - Wishing to see more of this little ocean , the Wener , I came to this small port upon it , about 35 miles from ...
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... traveller may wait an hour or two before these can be got to the station . The master of the station is also obliged to keep horses of his own to take the duty in turn . A book is delivered every month 38 OBSERVATIONS IN SWEDEN .
... traveller may wait an hour or two before these can be got to the station . The master of the station is also obliged to keep horses of his own to take the duty in turn . A book is delivered every month 38 OBSERVATIONS IN SWEDEN .
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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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