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fhift the tax off from the land , to ease that , and lay the burthen heavier on trade ? A. I have never understood it fo . I never heard fuch a thing suggested . And indeed an attempt of that kind could anfwer no purpose .
fhift the tax off from the land , to ease that , and lay the burthen heavier on trade ? A. I have never understood it fo . I never heard fuch a thing suggested . And indeed an attempt of that kind could anfwer no purpose .
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When deprived of this flimsy veil for a prohi bition of our trade with her enemy , by the repeal of his prohibition of our trade with Great Britain , her cabinet , instead of a corresponding repeal , or a practical discontinuance of its ...
When deprived of this flimsy veil for a prohi bition of our trade with her enemy , by the repeal of his prohibition of our trade with Great Britain , her cabinet , instead of a corresponding repeal , or a practical discontinuance of its ...
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... is as much a business man as the man who goes upon the board of trade and bets upon the price of grain ; the miners who go down a thousand feet into the earth , or climb two thousand feet upon the cliffs , and bring forth from their ...
... is as much a business man as the man who goes upon the board of trade and bets upon the price of grain ; the miners who go down a thousand feet into the earth , or climb two thousand feet upon the cliffs , and bring forth from their ...
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| Title | 12 Americans Speak |
| Editor | John Edwin Pomfret |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Huntington Library, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 24 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 183 pages |
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