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... farm brought into cultivation being less productive than that which had preceded it , there must be a constant diminution in the return to labour . III . That this increased difficulty of obtaining fertile land must give to all that was ...
... farm brought into cultivation being less productive than that which had preceded it , there must be a constant diminution in the return to labour . III . That this increased difficulty of obtaining fertile land must give to all that was ...
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... farms also yielding 200 bushels . If , now , another were desirous of establishing himself , and one of the farmers on No. 1 were desirous of changing his place , what would be the value of his farm ? He could not ask the value of three ...
... farms also yielding 200 bushels . If , now , another were desirous of establishing himself , and one of the farmers on No. 1 were desirous of changing his place , what would be the value of his farm ? He could not ask the value of three ...
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... farms will now fall to 20 months ' labour , and the pro- portion to be given as rent will fall with it . Each addition to the capital of the community will be attended with a diminution of the cost of a farm of any given productive ...
... farms will now fall to 20 months ' labour , and the pro- portion to be given as rent will fall with it . Each addition to the capital of the community will be attended with a diminution of the cost of a farm of any given productive ...
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... farm in wheat would have been 450 bushels , or nine years ' purchase of the 50 bushels re- ceived as rent . The value in labour being now 30 months , and a year's labour being worth 237 bushels , its price in wheat would be nearly 600 ...
... farm in wheat would have been 450 bushels , or nine years ' purchase of the 50 bushels re- ceived as rent . The value in labour being now 30 months , and a year's labour being worth 237 bushels , its price in wheat would be nearly 600 ...
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... farms are more recent , and who have contributed but little to the roads and other improvements . Had No. 1 wished to rent his farm when it produced him only 200 bushels , he would have obtained one fourth of the proceeds , or 50 ...
... farms are more recent , and who have contributed but little to the roads and other improvements . Had No. 1 wished to rent his farm when it produced him only 200 bushels , he would have obtained one fourth of the proceeds , or 50 ...
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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.