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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... means of ministering to one's own ease or pleasure is doubtless the foundation of slavery , and as old as human nature . " In the more advanced por- tions of the modern world slavery is forbidden , and it is only through the ...
... means of ministering to one's own ease or pleasure is doubtless the foundation of slavery , and as old as human nature . " In the more advanced por- tions of the modern world slavery is forbidden , and it is only through the ...
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... means by which this desire might be gratified . Hence gradually arose a demand for mechanical and artistic pursuits to supply agricultural implements , dwellings , household furniture and utensils , improved apparel , and ultimately ...
... means by which this desire might be gratified . Hence gradually arose a demand for mechanical and artistic pursuits to supply agricultural implements , dwellings , household furniture and utensils , improved apparel , and ultimately ...
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... means wholly exempt from the vicissitudes which beset his calling else- where ; for a variation of a few feet either way in the rise of the river was attended with serious loss . In modern times a rise of less than eighteen or twenty ...
... means wholly exempt from the vicissitudes which beset his calling else- where ; for a variation of a few feet either way in the rise of the river was attended with serious loss . In modern times a rise of less than eighteen or twenty ...
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... means of ditches and skillful mechanical appli- ances , as well as by dikes and dams to retain the water upon the land . The contrivances for irrigating lands lying above the level of the in- undation appear in early times to have been ...
... means of ditches and skillful mechanical appli- ances , as well as by dikes and dams to retain the water upon the land . The contrivances for irrigating lands lying above the level of the in- undation appear in early times to have been ...
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... means of securing for them a residence by themselves in the land of Goshen , ( Genesis xlvi , 33 and 34 . ) * The antipathy to persons engaged in pastoral pursuits , implied in the statement of Joseph , that every shepherd was " an ...
... means of securing for them a residence by themselves in the land of Goshen , ( Genesis xlvi , 33 and 34 . ) * The antipathy to persons engaged in pastoral pursuits , implied in the statement of Joseph , that every shepherd was " an ...
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