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At one shilling a copy, the authors would "only get 9 pence for each Copy from the Booksellers," and if we generously assume that all the booksellers 'copies sold, and estimate that Coleridge and Southey managed to sell 50 copies privately, and if we then subtract "nearly 9 pound" for "Expences of Paper, Printing, and Advertisements," the resulting profits would have been a little over �.
Introduction 2007
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Retrenchment of my Expences, I was deaf to all, and thought to supply my
Exilius 2008
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Pop-up large image is worth to me, all the Expences and Trouble of the Voyage.
Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 7 September 1783 1993
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Congress are at such grievous Expences, that I Shall have no other Secretary than my son.
Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 7 September 1783 1993
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Expences I know will be high but they must be born, and as to Cloaths for yourself and
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It is indeed true, every where, that those who attend to small Expences are always rich.
Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 18 December 1780 1973
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Living, and conveniences for Conveyance are very dear, in this Place, which will run my Expences very high.
Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 12 December 1779 1973
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They however treated the Officers and People well, and defrayed their Expences.
Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, April - May 1780 1973
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This must be added to all the other Expences of the War.
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The Motives of Congress are very good to save Expences, but this Motive will not have its Effect, if I am to be maintained here, in Idleness, or sent upon my Travells to other Countries, where I shall not be received, which would be the most painfull situation imaginable to me.
Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 27 November 1778 1973
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