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A52879 The New art of thriving, or, The Way to get and keep money being a seasonable caution against the extravagoncies of these times : containing sixteen excellent rules and observations for promoting good husbandry, and banishing idleness and profuseness, the certain parents of poverty, with a table of expences : principally intended for an admonition to youth, but necessary to be practised by all persons in these hard times, and to be set up in every family. 1700 (1700) Wing N553; ESTC R36930 5,713 1

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