 This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle...  Literary Amusements: In Verse and Prose - Page 8by Daniel Webb - 1787 - 76 pagesFull view - About this book
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 | 1843 - 348 pages
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