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    acquired


    1. Since then, he has acquired a sort of cult following which surged in the 60’s with the peace and Earth-loving hippies and has continued on into the 80’s and 90’s with New Ager’s buying the bulk of the over million bottles hand packed annually


    2. ‘I feel it will use the skills and experience I have acquired over the years


    3. Your talents are innate, whereas knowledge and skills can be acquired


    4. ‘It is one of the skills I have acquired over the years


    5. Within a month, and with late spring in full bud, the couple took possession of their brand new home, invested some of their newly acquired cash in a sporty little hatchback car, and paid for a family membership at a local country club and gymnasium


    6. of their brand new home, invested some of their newly acquired


    7. Keep track of what you have acquired from the


    8. By the time she left with her baby, she had acquired not only a very solid qualification in secretarial work, but a whole new persona


    9. As you can imagine, as a brilliant singer, Jo has acquired a few jealous enemies


    10. acquired at the crossing and passing over some coins to the girl

    11. tangled with men, and who have acquired no fear of humans


    12. Allcock, true to his promises, had forwarded the required reading for aspiring College entrants, which he acquired from the University directly


    13. He is given the capability of emotions and conscience, and he may develop intellect and reason, respectively; we can also call these two subcategories of his spiritual nature essence and personality, something given and something acquired


    14. While the acquired information itself, the repository of data, whether correct or incorrect, comes and goes through the doors of memory ad infinitum if you will


    15. Overnight it had somehow acquired that


    16. With his previously acquired knowledge of the region's deep history in hand, he established for himself the context of the newer information gleaned from the recent books of study


    17. It were other thoughts, however, that occupied the moments before his drifting off to sleep that night and even with all his experience, acquired knowledge and skills, he could not unravel the conundrum laid before him


    18. It is what literally separates us from the rest of the animal kingdom, and like its 'given' spiritual counterpart, the higher emotional center, it also is greater than the acquired sum of its parts


    19. ”He must be acquired


    20. patting snow on his newly acquired wounds

    21. He had acquired an interest in TAAG Angola Airlines even though it is 100% owned by the government of Angola


    22. A landlord, a farmer, a master manufacturer, or merchant, though they did not employ a single workman, could generally live a year or two upon the stocks, which they have already acquired


    23. It had, perhaps, even long before his time, acquired that full complement of riches which the nature of its laws and institutions permits it to acquire


    24. It deserves to be remarked, perhaps, that it is in the progressive state, while the society is advancing to the further acquisition, rather than when it has acquired its full complement of riches, that the condition of the labouring poor, of the great body of the people, seems to be the happiest and the most comfortable


    25. As the capital of a private man, though acquired by a particular trade, may increase beyond what he can employ in it, and yet that trade continue to increase too, so may likewise the capital of a great nation


    26. The great fortunes so suddenly and so easily acquired in Bengal and the other British settlements in the East Indies, may satisfy us, that as the wages of labour are very low, so the profits of stock are very high in those ruined countries


    27. China seems to have been long stationary, and had, probably, long ago acquired that full complement of riches which is consistent with the nature of its laws and institutions


    28. In a country which had acquired its full complement of riches, where, in every particular branch of business, there was the greatest quantity of stock that could be employed in it, as the ordinary rate of clear profit would be very small, so the usual market rate of interest which could be afforded out of it would be so low as to render it impossible for any but the very wealthiest people to live upon the interest of their money


    29. cannot be acquired without much practice and experience


    30. eminent teachers in those times appear to have acquired great fortunes

    31. as they can be acquired with a very small quantity of labour, so they will purchase or command but a very small quantity


    32. The red tip of the Graelic jutted from his back where he had strapped it in exchange for a dagger and a plain worn double-edged broadsword both of which he had acquired from one of the slain soldiers


    33. Fourthly, of the acquired and useful abilities of all the inhabitants and members of the society


    34. acquired in time, but only if the person loves children


    35. acquired a new sim-card and I was sure no one had her number


    36. fol owing, despite of the prosperity acquired it


    37. door, which, in meantime time, has acquired


    38. that Venus was acquired with 300 francs from a


    39. These last, however, must have been purchased, either immediately with the produce of domestic industry, or with something else that had been purchased with it; for, the case of war and conquest excepted, foreign goods can never be acquired, but in exchange for something that had been produced at home, either immediately, or after two or more different exchanges


    40. It is only by means of such exportation, that this surplus can acquired value sufficient to compensate the labour and expense of producing it

    41. We see, every day, the most splendid fortunes, that have been acquired in the course of a single life, by trade and manufactures, frequently from a very small capital, sometimes from no capital


    42. A single instance of such a fortune, acquired by agriculture in the same time, and from such a capital, has not, perhaps, occurred in Europe, during the course of the present century


    43. When an artificer has acquired a little more stock than is necessary for carrying on his own business in supplying the neighbouring country, he does not, in North America, attempt to establish with it a manufacture for more distant sale, but employs it in the purchase and improvement of uncultivated land


    44. In countries, on the contrary, where there is either no uncultivated land, or none that can be had upon easy terms, every artificer who has acquired more stock than he can employ in the occasional jobs of the neighbourhood, endeavours to prepare work for more distant sale


    45. If the society has not acquired sufficient capital, both to cultivate all its lands, and to manufacture in the completest manner the whole of its rude produce, there is even a considerable advantage that the rude produce should be exported by a foreign capital, in order that the whole stock of the society may be employed in more useful purposes


    46. During the continuance of those confusions, the chiefs and principal leaders of those nations acquired, or usurped to themselves, the greater part of the lands of those countries


    47. So many little remedies for most any affliction were so readily acquired in nature


    48. Whatever they acquired was acquired to their master, and he could take it from them at pleasure


    49. More does, perhaps, in Great Britain than in any other country, though even there the great stocks which are in some places employed in farming, have generally been acquired by fanning, the trade, perhaps, in which, of all others, stock is commonly acquired most slowly


    50. Whatever stock, therefore, accumulated in the hands of the industrious part of the inhabitants of the country, naturally took refuge in cities, as the only sanctuaries in which it could be secure to the person that acquired it














































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