Addresses of the Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of National IndustryJ. Maxwell, 1820 - 299 páginas |
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... tion being materially different from those of other nations , we require a totally different policy - and that however proper or necessary it may be for England or France , to encourage manufactures , sound policy dictates a different ...
... tion being materially different from those of other nations , we require a totally different policy - and that however proper or necessary it may be for England or France , to encourage manufactures , sound policy dictates a different ...
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... tion to this important branch . Public attention has unfortunately been diverted from the real sources of our prostrate state , by certain trite com- mon places , re - echoed throughout the union , —that it is a time of general ...
... tion to this important branch . Public attention has unfortunately been diverted from the real sources of our prostrate state , by certain trite com- mon places , re - echoed throughout the union , —that it is a time of general ...
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... tion would have been more rapid and complete , had those duties not existed . This we hope will be regarded as deci- sive ; for if our woollen manufacture , for instance , protect- ed , as it is termed , by a duty of 27 1-2 per cent ...
... tion would have been more rapid and complete , had those duties not existed . This we hope will be regarded as deci- sive ; for if our woollen manufacture , for instance , protect- ed , as it is termed , by a duty of 27 1-2 per cent ...
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... tion of our fellow - citizens . It is a vital one , on which the destinies of this nation depend . The freedom of commerce , wholly unrestrained by protecting duties and prohibitions , is the keystone of the so much extolled system of ...
... tion of our fellow - citizens . It is a vital one , on which the destinies of this nation depend . The freedom of commerce , wholly unrestrained by protecting duties and prohibitions , is the keystone of the so much extolled system of ...
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... . We conclude with submitting to the legislature of the United States , on whose decision depends the perpetua- tion of existing distress , or the restoration of the country , to that high grade of prosperity from which a false PREFACE .
... . We conclude with submitting to the legislature of the United States , on whose decision depends the perpetua- tion of existing distress , or the restoration of the country , to that high grade of prosperity from which a false PREFACE .
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Adam Smith advantages afford agriculture Alexander Hamilton amount balance of trade bounty branch Britain British cambrics capital cent cloth commerce competition congress consequence consideration cultivation debts demand destruction distress dollars domestic duced duties East India cotton employed employment encouragement England equal Europe expense exports extent fabrics factures farmer favour fellow citizens flax foreign markets happiness hemp home market honour Idem immense important increase interests kinds labour labour power land large portion leather linen Liverpool machinery manu manufac manufacturing establishments maxim ment merchants millions national industry nufactures object planters political economy population Portugal pounds pounds sterling present produce profit prohibition prosperity protection purchase raw material reduced regulate revenue ruin ruinous Russia silk society South Carolina Spain specie supply Surat tariff thousand tion trade tures United vessels wealth Wealth of Nations whole wholly wool woollen manufacture yards
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Página 262 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Página 280 - Be wise now therefore, O ye kings : be instructed, ye judges of the earth. Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
Página 16 - The statesman, who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself...
Página 16 - It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy.
Página 262 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep : so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Página 282 - If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
Página 280 - Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children: whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
Página 283 - For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly ; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
Página 114 - In such a position of things, the United States cannot exchange with Europe on equal terms; and the want of reciprocity would render them the victim of a system which should induce them to confine their views to agriculture, and refrain from manufactures. A constant and increasing necessity, on their part, for the commodities of Europe, and only a partial and occasional demand for their own, in return, could not but expose them to a state of impoverishment, compared with the opulence to which their...
Página 103 - This mode of reasoning is founded upon facts and principles, which have certainly respectable pretensions. If it had governed the conduct of nations more generally than it has done, there is room to suppose that it might have carried them faster to prosperity and greatness than they have attained by the pursuit of maxims too widely opposite.