An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations. - Designed To Shew How The Prosperity Of The British Empire - May Be Prolonged by William Playfair
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Of taxes for the maintenance of the poor.--Their enormous increase.-- The cause.--Comparison between those of England and Scotland.-- Simple, easy, and humane mode of reducing them..............247 CHAP. VI. Causes of decline, peculiar to England.................... 257 CHAP. VII. Circumstances peculiar to England, and favourable to it............. 261 CHAP. VIII. Conclusion.................... 276 Application of the present Inquiry to nations in general..............289 _AN I N Q U I R Y, &c. &c._ ====== |
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