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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... ...AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS by Adam Smith A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES... ...F THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATU- RALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE D... ... order of artificers, jour- neymen tailors, accordingly, earn their half-a-crown a-day , though eighteen pence may be reckoned the wages of common lab... ...n embassy to Rome; and though their city had then declined from its former grandeur, it was still an independent and considerable republic. Carneades,... ...land is at present in this situ- ation; and a considerable part of ancient Italy seems to have been so during the prosperity of the Romans. To feed we... ...loor of his hall with clean hay or rushes in the season, in order that the knights and squires, who could not get seats, might not spoil their fine cl... ...to the greater part of the turnpike roads of England. But what we call the cross roads, that is, the far greater part of the roads in the country, are...

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...enty-six, and before he went to Weimar, he began to write ?Egmont? After working on it at intervals for twelve years, he finished it at Rome in 1787. The scene of the drama is laid in the Low Countries at the beginning of the revolt against Spain. In the fifteenth century Philip of Burgundy had usurped dominion over several of the provinces of the Netherlands, and through ...

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