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Página ix
... constantly increasing difficulty in producing those commodities which constitute wealth . Wealth tends to increase rapidly , but the superior force of the procre- ative power is supposed to produce a necessity for the applica- tion of ...
... constantly increasing difficulty in producing those commodities which constitute wealth . Wealth tends to increase rapidly , but the superior force of the procre- ative power is supposed to produce a necessity for the applica- tion of ...
Página xii
... constantly increasing measure of the comforts of life , with a decreasing amount of labour . He shows him thus enabled to indulge his desire of continuing his species , undeterred by the fear of wanting those comforts either for himself ...
... constantly increasing measure of the comforts of life , with a decreasing amount of labour . He shows him thus enabled to indulge his desire of continuing his species , undeterred by the fear of wanting those comforts either for himself ...
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... constantly falling in its labour value . This diminution in the value of capital is attended by a dimi- nution in the proportion of the product of labour that is given for its use , by those who , unable to purchase , desire to hire it ...
... constantly falling in its labour value . This diminution in the value of capital is attended by a dimi- nution in the proportion of the product of labour that is given for its use , by those who , unable to purchase , desire to hire it ...
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... constantly diminishing return to labour and capital - that those who have appropriated the superior soils are , in consequence of this necessity , enabled to demand rent for their use - and that hence arises the value that is attached ...
... constantly diminishing return to labour and capital - that those who have appropriated the superior soils are , in consequence of this necessity , enabled to demand rent for their use - and that hence arises the value that is attached ...
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... constantly increasing proportion of its pro- duce , as rent . V. That each year there must be a diminution in the pro- portion retained by the labourer , attended by a constantly di- minishing reward of labour , or wages . It will be ...
... constantly increasing proportion of its pro- duce , as rent . V. That each year there must be a diminution in the pro- portion retained by the labourer , attended by a constantly di- minishing reward of labour , or wages . It will be ...
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accumulation acres advantages agriculture amount annum applied average bank Bank of England Britain bushels canals capitalist cause cent commodities compelled condition consequence constant constantly increasing corn cost cotton cultivation diminished diminution dollars employed employment enabled Encyclopædia Britannica England equal estimated exchange exist expenditure expense export farm fertile land former France give greater half hundred quarters Ibid improvement increase of population India inferior soils interest invested Ireland latter laws less machinery manufactures marriages Massachusetts ment millions nearly necessary obtain paid period persons Political Economy possession pounds pounds sterling present product of labour profits proportion purchase quantity of labour rail roads rate of profit raw produce received rendered rent return to labour revenue rupees Scotland security of person square mile subsistence supposed taxes tends tion tivation trade United wages wealth wheat whole yield
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Página 187 - Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil.
Página 10 - In the name of God, amen. We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign Lord King James, by the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, etc., having undertaken, for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith and honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia...
Página 10 - God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Página 190 - It is only, then, because land. is not unlimited in quantity and uniform in quality, and because, in the progress of population, land of an inferior quality, or less advantageously situated, is called into cultivation, that rent is ever paid for the use of it.
Página 310 - Men are much more likely to discover easier and readier methods of attaining any object when the whole attention of their minds is directed towards that single object than when it is dissipated among a great variety of things. But in consequence of the division of labour...
Página 310 - ... the increase of dexterity in every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of time, which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another; and, lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many.
Página 57 - We will suppose the means of subsistence in any country just equal to the easy support of its inhabitants. The constant effort towards population, which is found to act even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased.
Página 459 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Página 241 - ... any body politic or corporate whatsoever, erected or to be erected, or for any other persons whatsoever united or to be united in covenants or partnership, exceeding the number of six persons, in that part of Great Britain called England, to borrow, owe, or take up any sum or sums of money on their bills or notes payable at demand, or at any less time than six months from the borrowing thereof...
Página 459 - Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of. both the Poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game, along the coast of Brazil.