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" By means of glasses, hotbeds, and hot-walls, very good grapes can be raised- in Scotland, and very good wine too can be made of them at about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be brought from foreign countries. "
A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen - Page 286
by Thomas Thomson - 1855
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 2

Adam Smith - 1811 - 538 pages
...by all the world to be in vain to struggle with them. By means of glasses, hot-beds, and hot-walls, very good grapes can be raised in Scotland, and very good wine too can be made of them, at about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be brought...
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Addresses of the Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of National Industry

Mathew Carey - 1820 - 312 pages
...clothes but employs a tailor."* And he adds farther, " By means of glasses, hot-beds, and hot-walls, very good grapes can be raised in Scotland, and very good wine too can be made of them, at about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be brought...
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A Treatise on the Principles, Practice, & History of Commerce

John Ramsay McCulloch - 1833 - 142 pages
...by all the world to be in vain to struggle with them. By means of glasses, hot-beds, and hot-walls, very good grapes can be raised in Scotland, and very good wine too can be made of them, at about thirty times the expense for which, at least, equally good can he...
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An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. With a comm ...

Adam Smith - 1836 - 538 pages
...by all the world to be in vain to struggle with them. By means of glasses, hot-beds, and hot-walls, very good grapes can be raised in Scotland, and very good wine too can be made of them at about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be brought...
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Joseph Salway Eisdell - 1839 - 636 pages
...by all the world to be in vain to struggle with them. By means of glasses, hotbeds, and hot walls, very good grapes can be raised in Scotland, and very good wine too can be made of them at about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be bought...
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A Statistical Account of the British Empire: Exhibiting Its Extent ..., Volume 2

John Ramsay McCulloch, John Ramsay M'Culloch - 1839 - 760 pages
...by all the world to be in vain to struggle with them. By means of glasses, hot-beds, and hot-walls, very good grapes can be raised in Scotland, and very good wine too can be made of them, at about thirty times the expense for which, at least, equally good can be...
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A Comprehensive History of the Woollen and Worsted Manufactures ..., Volume 1

James Bischoff - 1842 - 632 pages
...ourselves. Dr. Adam Smith very justly observes, 'that by the means of glass for hot-beds and hot walls, very good grapes can be raised in Scotland, and very good wine too can be made of them, at about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be brought...
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Free Trade and the League: A Biographic History of the Pioneers of Freedom ...

Alexander Somerville - 1853 - 676 pages
...by all the world to be in vain to struggle with them. Tly means of glasses, hot-beds, and hot-walls, very good grapes can be raised in Scotland, and very good wine can be made from them, at about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be brought from foreign...
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A Descriptive and Statistical Account of the British Empire ..., Volume 2

John Ramsay McCulloch - 1854 - 846 pages
...by all the world to be in vain to struggle with them. By means of glasses, hot-beds, and hot-walls, very good grapes can be raised in Scotland, and very good wine too can be made of them, at about thirty times the expense for which, at least, equally good can be...
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The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart, Volume 9

Dugald Stewart - 1856 - 502 pages
...by all the world to be in vain to struggle with them. By means of glasses, hot-beds, and hot walls, very good grapes can be raised in Scotland ; and very good wine too can be made of them at about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be brought...
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