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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe: but what might be said to be absolutely necessary.
This caused the multitude of single people in London to be
unprovided for, as also families whose living depended upon the
labour of the heads of those families; I say, this reduced them to
extreme misery; and I must confess it is for the honour of the city of
London, and will be for many ages, as long as this is to be spoken of,
that they were able to supply with charitable provision the wants of so
many thousands of those as afterwards fell sick and were distressed:
so that it may be safely averred that nobody perished for want, at least
that the magistrates had any notice given them of.
This stagnation of our manufacturing trade in the country would
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