Principles of Political Economy, Volume 2,Parte 2Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1838 |
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... foreign foe , unless a large proportion of the people were main- tained under arms . They might build castles or fortresses for the protection of their persons and of their moveable property , but to do so would require a vast ...
... foreign foe , unless a large proportion of the people were main- tained under arms . They might build castles or fortresses for the protection of their persons and of their moveable property , but to do so would require a vast ...
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... foreign enemy , being always prepared to defend itself . It would require neither fortifications nor passports , and labour being consequently more steadily applied to the production of com- modities , production would be increased . A ...
... foreign enemy , being always prepared to defend itself . It would require neither fortifications nor passports , and labour being consequently more steadily applied to the production of com- modities , production would be increased . A ...
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... foreign aggression and intestine commotion ; the pernicious influence of the feudal system has long been at an end ; the same equal burdens have been laid on all classes ; we have enjoyed the advantage of liberal institutions , without ...
... foreign aggression and intestine commotion ; the pernicious influence of the feudal system has long been at an end ; the same equal burdens have been laid on all classes ; we have enjoyed the advantage of liberal institutions , without ...
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... foreign countries the productions of their friends and neighbours , and would derive therefrom an abundant support , re- main at home comparatively unproductively employed . Produc- tion is diminished , and the proportion required by ...
... foreign countries the productions of their friends and neighbours , and would derive therefrom an abundant support , re- main at home comparatively unproductively employed . Produc- tion is diminished , and the proportion required by ...
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... foreign , in which the nation was engaged , the effects of which still remain . The traveller through England sees the country dotted over with farm houses and cottages , as is the case in the United States ; but crossing the channel ...
... foreign , in which the nation was engaged , the effects of which still remain . The traveller through England sees the country dotted over with farm houses and cottages , as is the case in the United States ; but crossing the channel ...
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agriculture amount annum applied average Bank of England Bank of France banks Bengal Britain canals capitalist cent centimes circulation classes commodities compelled condition consequence constant constantly increasing contributions cost cotton cultivation diminished diminution duties effect employed employment enabled Encyclopædia Britannica England equal established estimated exchange exist expenditure expenses export foreign former France give gold half head hectolitres Ibid improvement India interest invested Ireland land large portion latter less loans London machinery maintenance manufactures Massachusetts ment miles millions of dollars nearly necessary neighbours number of persons obtain owner of capital paid payment Pennsylvania poor pounds sterling present production profits proportion proprietors quality of labour quantity rail roads received rendered rent revenue rupees Ryot Scotland security of person ships square mile sterling taxation taxes tends tion trade United wages wheat whole York
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Página 10 - Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the first colony in the northern Parts of Virginia; Do by these Presents, solemnly and mutually in the Presence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick, for our better Ordering and Preservation...
Página 10 - Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of 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...
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.
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 459 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English...
Página 202 - The most prominent, however, of those defects, which cripple the energies of the Established Church, and circumscribe its usefulness, is the want of Churches and ministers in the large towns and populous districts of the kingdom. The growth of the population has been so rapid, as to outrun the means possessed by the establishment of meeting its spiritual wants; and the result has been, that a vast proportion of the people are left destitute of the opportunities of public worship and Christian instruction,...
Página 183 - God and his country, and placed him under the schoolmaster of his village as soon as he had obtained his fifth year. The ceremony of introducing him for the first time to the schoolmaster and his scholars was publicly recorded, and was attended with all the solemnity of a religious observance ; a prayer being publicly offered...
Página 50 - ... provided food, a large portion necessarily dies of hunger. The people of a district thus deserting their homes are called the Wulsa of the district. A state of habitual misery, involving precautions against incessant war and unpitying depredations of so peculiar a description as to require in any of the languages of Europe a long circumlocution, is expressed in all the languages of Deckan and the south of India by a single word. No proofs...
Página 274 - Had you any Frenchmen employed under you ?' — ' Yes ; eight, at two francs a day.' ' What had you a day ?' — ' Twelve francs.' ' Supposing you had had eight English carders under you, how much more work could you have done ?' — ' With one Englishman, I could have done more than I did with those eight Frenchmen. It cannot be called work they do : it is only looking at it, and wishing it done.
Página 455 - Pelion (Ossa); and they govern themselves, like their ancestors, by their protoyeros (primates, elders), and their own magistrates. Twice the Mussulmans of Larissa attempted to scale their rocks, and twice were they repulsed by hands which dropped the shuttle to seize the musket. " Every arm, even those of the children, is employed in the factories; whilst the men dye the cotton, the women prepare and spin it. There are twenty-four factories...