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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 as none but those masters that were rich could do thus, and that
many were poor and not able, the manufacturing trade in England
suffered greatly, and the poor were pinched all over England by the
calamity of the city of London only.
It is true that the next year made them full amends by another
terrible calamity upon the city; so that the city by one calamity
impoverished and weakened the country, and by another calamity,
even terrible too of its kind, enriched the country and made them
again amends; for an infinite quantity of household Stuff, wearing
apparel, and other things, besides whole warehouses filled with
merchandise and manufactures such as come from all parts of
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