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...Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND ................................................................ 4 TOILETTE OF THE HEBREW LADY........................................................................................ 43 CHARLEMAGNE...................

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...ublication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...had they held in their hands vast commercial cities and great agricultural districts; had they owned ships and been masters of a wide-spread trade, Am... ...ed as the Territories are now treated.” (The Territories are vast outlying districts belonging to the Union, but not as yet endowed with State govern-... ...d Illinois, than which perhaps the sur- face of the globe affords no finer districts for purposes of agriculture. The produce of the two Canadas must ... ...uses have been packed on to houses, till London and Manchester, Dublin and Glasgow have been produced. Poor men have built, or have had built for them... ...n England might perhaps place near to a railway terminus in such a city as Glasgow or Manchester, but on which no living Englishman would expend his m...

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...Contents INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DIS...

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...AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS by Adam Smith A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SER... ...CTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... there has lately been a considerable rise in the demand for labour, about Glasgow, Carron, Ayrshire, etc. In England, the improvements of agriculture... ... from their trade. I have heard it asserted, that the trade of the city of Glasgow doubled in about fifteen years after the first erection of the bank... ... 1727. Whether the trade, either of Scotland in general, or of the city of Glasgow in particu- lar, has really increased in so great a proportion, dur... ... very much below the real value; though in several particular counties and districts it is said to be nearly equal to that value. The rent of the land... ... register-offices which it would be proper to estab- lish in the different districts of the country, and by the different valuations which might occas... ...nty thousand livres. This addi- tional tax is rated upon all the different districts subject to the taille according to the old assessment. But it is ...

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...Contents THE COMING OF BLRIOT ......................................................................................................... 5 MY FIRST FLIGHT..............................................................................................

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