 | Benjamin Franklin - 1779 - 610 σελίδες
...may demand forty, and perhaps get thirty (hillings for that which coil him but twenty. 12. Finally, there feem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire...in plundering their conquered neighbours. This is robbery.—" The fecond by commerce, which is, generally cheating.—- The third by agriculture, the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1780 - 726 σελίδες
...may demand forty, and perhaps get thirty (hillings for chai which coil him but twenty. 12. Finally, there feem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire...in plundering their conquered neighbours. This is robbery. — The fécond by commerce, which is, generally cheating, — The third by agriculture, the... | |
 | James Anderson - 1792 - 404 σελίδες
...him but twenty. n. Finally, there seem to be but thfee ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans 'did, in plundering their conquered neighbours ; this is robbery. — The second by commerce, which is generally cheating — The third by agriculture, the... | |
 | James Anderson - 1792 - 402 σελίδες
...demand forty, and pehaps get thirty fhillings for that which cost him but twenty. n. Finally, there seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbours ; this is robbery —... | |
 | 1796 - 692 σελίδες
...may demand forty, and perhaps get thirty (hillings for that which colt him but twenty. 12. Finally, there feem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The firft is by VIST, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbours. This is robbery. — The fecond... | |
 | 1802 - 684 σελίδες
...may demand forty, and perhaps get thirty (hillings, for that which cod him, but twenty. 1 2. Finally, there feem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire...Romans did in plundering their conquered neighbours. Thie is robbery. — The (ccond by commerce, which is generally cleattng. — The third by agritulfure,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 360 σελίδες
...forty, and perhaps get thirty shillings for that which cost him but twenty. 12. Finally, there seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbours: this is robbery. The... | |
 | 1821 - 356 σελίδες
...forty, and perhaps get thirty shillings for that which cost him but twenty. 12. Finally, there seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbours : this is robbery. The... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1825 - 324 σελίδες
...forty, and perhaps get thirty shillings for that which cost him but twenty. 12 Finally, there soems to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbours ; this is robbery. —... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 σελίδες
...you must make drunk before you can get a word of truth out of him.— Johnson. CLXXXIV. There seems to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth : the first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbours — this is robbery; the... | |
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This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle... 
