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... OF THE AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS ' EMIGRATION ,. AMERICA REDIVIVA , 163 199 THE FUTURE OF FOOD , . 236 SOCIAL NEW YORK , 266 CONCLUSION : WITH A FEW WORDS ON BIMETALLISM , . 294 ESSAYS . DANTE FOR THE GENERAL.1 A WORD of apology.
... OF THE AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS ' EMIGRATION ,. AMERICA REDIVIVA , 163 199 THE FUTURE OF FOOD , . 236 SOCIAL NEW YORK , 266 CONCLUSION : WITH A FEW WORDS ON BIMETALLISM , . 294 ESSAYS . DANTE FOR THE GENERAL.1 A WORD of apology.
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... emigration which has not only been the overflow of population , but has borne onward in its course a continuous protest against many of the ideas , the sentiments , and the methods ( particularly the military methods ) of the Old World ...
... emigration which has not only been the overflow of population , but has borne onward in its course a continuous protest against many of the ideas , the sentiments , and the methods ( particularly the military methods ) of the Old World ...
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... emigrated because they were discontented with , or rebellious against , their former lot - there is quite as much of distrust as love . If the New World has been in a certain sense the expansion of the Old 126 THE NEW WORLD .
... emigrated because they were discontented with , or rebellious against , their former lot - there is quite as much of distrust as love . If the New World has been in a certain sense the expansion of the Old 126 THE NEW WORLD .
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... emigration are unavoidable . An English labourer in Minnesota , sick unto death in a sparse - peopled region , will no doubt look back with a sigh to what he has left behind him . Here is no village green to gladden his dying eyes , nor ...
... emigration are unavoidable . An English labourer in Minnesota , sick unto death in a sparse - peopled region , will no doubt look back with a sigh to what he has left behind him . Here is no village green to gladden his dying eyes , nor ...
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... emigration organisation our labouring classes could have conveyed to them an accurate conception of the conditions of life in America , L they might perhaps be not unwilling to prove on their EXTENSION OF RAILWAYS IN AMERICA . 161.
... emigration organisation our labouring classes could have conveyed to them an accurate conception of the conditions of life in America , L they might perhaps be not unwilling to prove on their EXTENSION OF RAILWAYS IN AMERICA . 161.
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