... the pseudonym Richard Saunders'. Franklin used the character Poor Richard', after the alleged author, to personify the moral codes and work ethics he wished to enforce on other Americans. For instance: Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small and the wants great', describing the pleasures of his successful contemporaries, and the dissatisfaction which they tried to extinguish with further indulgences. ... individual chose to live their life. However he enforced a work ethic over cultural exploration; he describes a novel as a great obstacle' in the education of youth, and di...

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... uniformity also. On the subject of exports, Schlote found that export growth slowed after 1870. Pollard, stating that exports were the only reliable figure for international comparison at the time, also notes a "clear dip" during the 1880s and 1890s but says that there was an "equally clear recovery" thereafter. Before going on to conclude that Victorian Britain was "not stagnating", McCloskey sums up ... the 3 main criticisms of economic performance during the period. The first is that output grew too slowly because of sluggish demand, the second that too much was invested abroad becau...

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... the tenants of our farms." Without a disruption to this relationship it is not surprising that politicians, "Didn't believe in any substantial government initiative," and were content to rule from a silent position. Historical legacy before 1714 supports this, with lessons learnt from a previous campaign whereby James II, prior to the Glorious Revolution of 1688, had tried to install ... awoke British complacency, triggering a new directed interventionist policy that simultaneously proved how policy was financially orientated. While this corresponds with the installation of Henry Pelham...

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... to have contributed to the collapse of the European Empires was a new sense of nationalism in colonised territories. After World War II for example, with the defeat of the tyrannical and imperialistic enemy, Nazi Germany, nations like India gained a new outlook on their place within the world, not ... 1946 is a clear example of desperation to keep the Empire together with its indissoluble unity.1 The matters of France, its overseas territories, and associated states and territories, which was the new concept for Indochina (simply because they underestimated the ongoing insurgency to Fr...

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