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" The earth must be laboured before it gives its increase, and when it is forced into its several products, how many hands must they pass through before they are fit for use ! Manufactures, trade, and agriculture, naturally employ more than nineteen parts... "
The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers, from "The Spectator" - Page 68
by Joseph Addison - 1896 - 174 pages
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The Spectator: ...

1718 - 348 pages
...feveral Products, how many Hands muft they pafs through before they are fit for Ufe ? Manufacture!;, Trade, and Agriculture, naturally employ more than...nineteen Parts of the Species in twenty ; and as for thofe who are not obliged to Labour, by the Condition in which they are born, they are more miferable...
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The Spectator, Volume 2

1729 - 342 pages
...forced into its feveral Products, how many Hands muft they pafc through before they are fit for Ufe > Manufactures, Trade, and Agriculture, naturally employ...nineteen Parts of the Species in twenty; and as for thofe who are not obliged to Labour, by the Condition in which they are born, they are more miferable...
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Elements of Elocution: In which the Principles of Reading and Speaking are ...

John Walker - 1799 - 438 pages
...Rule I, and the firft with the falling inflexion, in a fomewhat lower tone than the fecond. EXAMPLES. Manufactures, trade, and agriculture, naturally employ more than nineteen parts of the fpecies in twenty. SpeS. N" 115. A man that has a tafte of mufic, painting, or architecture, is like...
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The British Essayists: The Spectator

Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 366 pages
...furnishes materials, but expects that we should work them up ourselves. The earth must be laboured before it gives its increase, and when it is forced...in twenty ; and as for those who are not obliged to labour, by the condition in which they are born, they are more miserable than the rest of mankind,...
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The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volume 7

British essayists - 1802 - 342 pages
...furnishes materials, but expects that we should work them up ourselves. The earth must be laboured before it gives its increase, and when it is forced into its severaj products, how many hands must they pass through before they are fit for use ! Manufactures,...
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The Spectator ...

1803 - 466 pages
...more than nineteen parts of the species in twenty ; and as for those who are not obliged to labour.-by the condition in which they are born, they are more miserable than the rest of mankind, un* less they indulge themselves in that voluntary labour which goes by the name of exercise. My friend...
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The British Essayists;: Spectator

Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 346 pages
...furnishes materials, but expects that we should work them up ourselves. The earth must be laboured before it gives its increase, and when it is forced...trade, and agriculture, naturally employ more than uineteeu parts of the species in twenty ; and as for those who are not obliged to labour, by the condition...
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A treatise on the mineral waters of Harrogate

Thomas Garnett - 1810 - 236 pages
...our* selves- The earth must be labored before it gives it's increase, and when it is forced into it's several products, how many hands must they pass through,...trade, and agriculture, naturally employ more than I?/ parts of the species in SO: and as for * those who are not obliged to labor, by the condition in...
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Elements of Elocution: In which the Principles of Reading and Speaking are ...

John Walker - 1810 - 394 pages
...inquiry. Thus iVIr. Acldison, speaking of the necessity of exercise, says — The earth must belaboured before it gives its increase ; and •when it is forced into its several products, how many hands ipust they pass through before they are fit for use ? Spectator, No. 115. » • And this passage,...
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The Spectator

Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...furnishes materials, but expects that we should work them up ourselves. The earth must be laboured before it gives its increase ; and when it is forced...in twenty ; and as for those who are not obliged to labour, by the condition in which they are born, they are more miserable than the rest of mankind,...
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