Labor in Europe and America: A Special Report on the Rates of Wages, the Cost of Subsistence, and the Condition of the Working Classes in Great Britain, Germany, France, Belgium, and Other Countries of Europe, Also in the United States and British AmericaU.S. Government Printing Office, 1876 - 864 páginas |
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... less inviting than the health- inspiring breezes of her hills and fields , while their great workshops and factories were far less attractive from an æsthetic point of view than those " epics in stone " which commemorate the devotional ...
... less inviting than the health- inspiring breezes of her hills and fields , while their great workshops and factories were far less attractive from an æsthetic point of view than those " epics in stone " which commemorate the devotional ...
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... less useful , task of preparing the materials - of quarrying , hewing , and polishing the stones , carefully observing that their quality is good , their lines mathematically accurate , and their integrity and trustworthiness undoubted ...
... less useful , task of preparing the materials - of quarrying , hewing , and polishing the stones , carefully observing that their quality is good , their lines mathematically accurate , and their integrity and trustworthiness undoubted ...
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... less been many analogous cases . Another source of slavery at a later period was debt , and the power which in many countries law and custom have given to the creditor over the body of the debtor . Tacitus states that among the ancient ...
... less been many analogous cases . Another source of slavery at a later period was debt , and the power which in many countries law and custom have given to the creditor over the body of the debtor . Tacitus states that among the ancient ...
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... less extent which had for generations escaped the terrors of war ; whose social arrangements , if not founded upon absolute equity , were at least comparatively free from the effects of vio- lence and injustice ; and whose condition ...
... less extent which had for generations escaped the terrors of war ; whose social arrangements , if not founded upon absolute equity , were at least comparatively free from the effects of vio- lence and injustice ; and whose condition ...
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... less than 2,367 years . If to these thirty dynasties be added that of the Ptolemies , which , although of foreign origin , ruled in an Egyptian capital and identified itself more or less closely with Egyptian interests , the history of ...
... less than 2,367 years . If to these thirty dynasties be added that of the Ptolemies , which , although of foreign origin , ruled in an Egyptian capital and identified itself more or less closely with Egyptian interests , the history of ...
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