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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... ...n afford it, so it is upon the sea-coast, and along the banks of navigable rivers, that industry of every kind naturally begins to subdivide and impro... ...about them, and separates them from the sea-coast, and the great navigable rivers. The extent of the market, therefore, must for a long time be in pro... ...e con- stantly followed either the sea-coast or the banks of the navigable rivers, and have scarce anywhere extended themselves to any con- siderable ... ...r, the rent of the greater part of other cultivated land. In some parts of Lancashire, it is pretended, I have been told, that bread of oatmeal is a h...

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...Publication An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...ity. 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... ...im barefoot to the end of the world.” “I think you ought to search all the rivers—you would have to do that barefoot. He must have fallen in somewhere... ...an that lives by himself in a place 128 An Unsocial Socialist down by the Riverside Road like a toy savings bank—don’t you know the things I mean?—ca... ...can’t stop ‘em. Th’ave throon down the wall; three yards of it is lyin’ on Riverside Road. An’ there’s a parson with ‘em, and a flag. An’ him that liv... ...s. This is my mother, a woman of good family, every inch a lady. Here is a Lancashire lass, the daughter of a common pitman. She has exactly the same ...