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... present generation , while they lavish the highest talents on descriptions of personal feelings or adventures , of romantic na- tural scenery , of striking objects in the sciences or fine arts , have left few of the more humble facts or ...
... present generation , while they lavish the highest talents on descriptions of personal feelings or adventures , of romantic na- tural scenery , of striking objects in the sciences or fine arts , have left few of the more humble facts or ...
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... present period , because these two nations , although the furthest removed from the agitation of the French revolution , have by a singular chance , been affected by it more permanently , and one of them more beneficially , than any ...
... present period , because these two nations , although the furthest removed from the agitation of the French revolution , have by a singular chance , been affected by it more permanently , and one of them more beneficially , than any ...
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... present social condition of the Norwegian people , I consi- dered it necessary , in order to complete the view of the present moral , political , and economical state of the inhabitants of the Scandinavian penin- sula , to undertake the ...
... present social condition of the Norwegian people , I consi- dered it necessary , in order to complete the view of the present moral , political , and economical state of the inhabitants of the Scandinavian penin- sula , to undertake the ...
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... present a curious contrast to the simple and democratic Norway . I resolved to pass the summer of 1838 , in visiting this fairest and most important portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula . None of the second- ary European powers have ...
... present a curious contrast to the simple and democratic Norway . I resolved to pass the summer of 1838 , in visiting this fairest and most important portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula . None of the second- ary European powers have ...
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... present age , been either the puppets or the victims . The present position of Sweden among the European powers extraordinary . By the loss of her foreign provinces of Finland and Pomerania , she is severed from the mainland of Europe ...
... present age , been either the puppets or the victims . The present position of Sweden among the European powers extraordinary . By the loss of her foreign provinces of Finland and Pomerania , she is severed from the mainland of Europe ...
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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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