Miscellanies, Volumen2Macmillan, 1863 |
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... towns , though it was poi- soning hundreds yearly by epidemics . But the science du néant took little account of such plain matters ; after all , why help to support more human beings , when it had settled long ago that there were too ...
... towns , though it was poi- soning hundreds yearly by epidemics . But the science du néant took little account of such plain matters ; after all , why help to support more human beings , when it had settled long ago that there were too ...
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... town ? ' " So , too , at Pernambuco . Can one wonder at the recurrence of yellow fever , while there is not a drain of any sort , and all imaginable filth lies in the streets ; ' or that the resources of the country should be altogether ...
... town ? ' " So , too , at Pernambuco . Can one wonder at the recurrence of yellow fever , while there is not a drain of any sort , and all imaginable filth lies in the streets ; ' or that the resources of the country should be altogether ...
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... town manure a couple of miles ! Tens of thousands here glad enough of sheep's trotters or tripe once a week ; good beef in tons putrefying there . It is sad and ludicrous enough : the one comfort is , that the laws of supply and demand ...
... town manure a couple of miles ! Tens of thousands here glad enough of sheep's trotters or tripe once a week ; good beef in tons putrefying there . It is sad and ludicrous enough : the one comfort is , that the laws of supply and demand ...
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... town , where the soil is clay , and the surface covered with little shallow pools of water , with pretty water - plants and quantities of wading birds , I saw the most magnificent bird I ever beheld ; he must be the king that was sent ...
... town , where the soil is clay , and the surface covered with little shallow pools of water , with pretty water - plants and quantities of wading birds , I saw the most magnificent bird I ever beheld ; he must be the king that was sent ...
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... towns taken , spoiled , burnt , and sacked - the King's said subjects in all this time , by the high providence and politic means of his Grace , have been nevertheless preserved , defended , and main- tained from all these inconvenients ...
... towns taken , spoiled , burnt , and sacked - the King's said subjects in all this time , by the high providence and politic means of his Grace , have been nevertheless preserved , defended , and main- tained from all these inconvenients ...
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