Public and Private Economy, Parte 1Harper, 1836 - 214 páginas |
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... happiness , unless it be abused . Talents , skill , strength , beauty , and all the posses- sions of men may be ... happiness than husks and ashes , eaten , would give strength to the body . Where then is the mansion of happiness ? -It ...
... happiness , unless it be abused . Talents , skill , strength , beauty , and all the posses- sions of men may be ... happiness than husks and ashes , eaten , would give strength to the body . Where then is the mansion of happiness ? -It ...
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... happiness of the poor man , and very exalted hap- piness it is , when he labours from day to day , through heat and cold , resisting temptation , fleeing from v ce ; at the same time that he sees how stupidly an wicked- ly many , who ...
... happiness of the poor man , and very exalted hap- piness it is , when he labours from day to day , through heat and cold , resisting temptation , fleeing from v ce ; at the same time that he sees how stupidly an wicked- ly many , who ...
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... happiest man . But to enable us to give we must have something , and this again shows us the value of property . Those who have nothing may be kind - hearted , generous , and naturally noble - minded ; they may forever be thinking to do ...
... happiest man . But to enable us to give we must have something , and this again shows us the value of property . Those who have nothing may be kind - hearted , generous , and naturally noble - minded ; they may forever be thinking to do ...
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... happiness , in a free country , where wealth must be fairly distributed as soon as the people come to un- derstand the true principles of public economy , -is to say that more well - cultivated farms , more good houses , good clothes ...
... happiness , in a free country , where wealth must be fairly distributed as soon as the people come to un- derstand the true principles of public economy , -is to say that more well - cultivated farms , more good houses , good clothes ...
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... happiness , oppose monopolies and unequal laws , though he himself derive advantage from them . If all this be true , to attempt to teach economy without reference to our religious duty , is like taking the picture of a man from a ...
... happiness , oppose monopolies and unequal laws , though he himself derive advantage from them . If all this be true , to attempt to teach economy without reference to our religious duty , is like taking the picture of a man from a ...
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acres Adam and Eve ALPHEUS FELCH animal bad religion beautiful body bour called capital cattle cause chap clothes coloured comfort common compelled condition consume cost cultivated day-labourers destitute dollars drink earn earth emigrant employed enable England equal Europe evil expense farm farmers fashion finery give greater greatest hands happiness hired houses hundred idle idle class improvement increase industry Ireland Julius Cæsar kind land liberty live lord Louis the fourteenth mankind manual labour manufacturers means mechanics ment merchants mind miserable nation nature never New-York obtain plough Political Economy portion possessions pounds sterling poverty present primogeniture principle produce proper public economy reason rents rich and poor Rome serf slavery slaves spend tenant things thousand tion true United wages waste wealth Wealth of Nations
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Página 67 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent, to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Página 24 - Let him that stole steal no more; but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Página 67 - 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 66 - And pray, sir, what in the world is equal to it? Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishery.
Página 194 - We may therefore acquiesce in the pleasing conclusion, that every age of the world has increased, and still increases, the real wealth, the happiness, the knowledge, and perhaps the virtue, of the human race.
Página 195 - IF you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of corn; and if (instead of each picking where and what it liked, taking just as much as it wanted, and no more) you should see ninety-nine of them gathering all they got into a heap ; reserving nothing for themselves but the chaff and the refuse; keeping this heap for one, and that the weakest, perhaps worst...
Página 56 - that the king is the universal lord and original proprietor of all the lands in his kingdom : (z) and that no man doth or can possess any part of it, but what has mediately or immediately been derived as a gift from him, to be held upon feudal services.
Página 67 - 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. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting, place in the progress of their victorious industry.
Página 196 - ... worst, pigeon of the flock; sitting round, and looking on all the winter, whilst this one was devouring, throwing about, and wasting it ; and if a pigeon more hardy or hungry than the rest, touched a grain of the hoard, all the others instantly flying upon it, and tearing it to pieces ; if you should see this, you would see nothing more than what is every day' practised and established among men.
Página 45 - Like the sun, he burns eyes and hearts ; nor can any human creature on earth gaze on him. He is fire and air ; he, both sun and moon; he, the god of criminal justice; he, the genius of wealth ; he, the regent of waters ; he, the lord of the firmament. A king, even though a child, must not be treated lightly, from an idea that he is a mere mortal : no, he is a powerful divinity who appears in a human shape.
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Prophets of Prosperity: America's First Political Economists Paul Keith Conkin Visualização de excertos - 1980 |