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... persons , and its contingent to the forces of the Germanic body as one of its states , is a corps of 1300 men . Edinburgh or Glasgow , each of which has a larger population , would find it an intolerable direct burden , to levy and ...
... persons , and its contingent to the forces of the Germanic body as one of its states , is a corps of 1300 men . Edinburgh or Glasgow , each of which has a larger population , would find it an intolerable direct burden , to levy and ...
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... persons in their families ; 4424 are priests , supporting 21,125 per- sons ; 933 are military officers , supporting 2850 persons ; 190 are naval officers , supporting 747 per- sons ; 6987 are non - commissioned officers and sol- diers ...
... persons in their families ; 4424 are priests , supporting 21,125 per- sons ; 933 are military officers , supporting 2850 persons ; 190 are naval officers , supporting 747 per- sons ; 6987 are non - commissioned officers and sol- diers ...
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... persons ; or every 10 indi- viduals have to support 1 , who is not engaged in productive industry , but is a public functionary , or a pauper living upon their productive industry . There is one clergyman to every 2766ths of the ...
... persons ; or every 10 indi- viduals have to support 1 , who is not engaged in productive industry , but is a public functionary , or a pauper living upon their productive industry . There is one clergyman to every 2766ths of the ...
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... persons I met on the road could tell ; but Sweden may challenge all Europe to produce in a public monument such a specimen of the want of common sense , as modern words in an obsolete character , of which not twenty persons in a million ...
... persons I met on the road could tell ; but Sweden may challenge all Europe to produce in a public monument such a specimen of the want of common sense , as modern words in an obsolete character , of which not twenty persons in a million ...
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... persons ; and for the size of the place , it appeared to me that the number of well - dressed people in the streets people , not of the work- ing , nor even of the busy class , was unusually great . I found two booksellers ' shops , and ...
... persons ; and for the size of the place , it appeared to me that the number of well - dressed people in the streets people , not of the work- ing , nor even of the busy class , was unusually great . I found two booksellers ' shops , and ...
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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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