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The manifold causes of the increase of the poor distinctly set forth : together with a set of proposals for removing and preventing some of the principal evils, and for lessening others.

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Main Author:	Tucker, Josiah, 1712-1799
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1760]
Series:	Making of the modern world (Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature)
Subjects:	Poor > Great Britain. Charities > Great Britain. Great Britain > Social conditions > 18th century. Electronic books.
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