Public and Private Economy, Parte 1Harper, 1836 - 214 páginas |
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... reason why poor farmers and mechanics suffer so much for the want of labour - saving instruments . Men cannot spend their time upon new experiments without property to do it ; and this also is the reason why poor men , who are entitled ...
... reason why poor farmers and mechanics suffer so much for the want of labour - saving instruments . Men cannot spend their time upon new experiments without property to do it ; and this also is the reason why poor men , who are entitled ...
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... reason why such multitudes are so miserably indigent now , is that they do waste and destroy their property in the manner stated , as will be plainly shown . 10. Fifth , The next great blessing and advantage of a moderate property , and ...
... reason why such multitudes are so miserably indigent now , is that they do waste and destroy their property in the manner stated , as will be plainly shown . 10. Fifth , The next great blessing and advantage of a moderate property , and ...
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... reason why the government , or supreme power , should do it . The government , or supreme power , must act through their agents , and these agents cannot , if the peo- ple are well informed , know as well as the people them- selves ...
... reason why the government , or supreme power , should do it . The government , or supreme power , must act through their agents , and these agents cannot , if the peo- ple are well informed , know as well as the people them- selves ...
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... reasons , that in the United States indigent farmers only , with few exceptions , ever I cultivate the earth upon these terms . 38. The third species of rents are ryot rents , which , with a few exceptions , are peculiar to Asia : The ...
... reasons , that in the United States indigent farmers only , with few exceptions , ever I cultivate the earth upon these terms . 38. The third species of rents are ryot rents , which , with a few exceptions , are peculiar to Asia : The ...
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... reason is , that in these there is not land enough to enable every man to obtain a portion . The rich in such cases buy the land , and lease it to their poorer neighbours ; if these , however , were able and willing to emigrate to ...
... reason is , that in these there is not land enough to enable every man to obtain a portion . The rich in such cases buy the land , and lease it to their poorer neighbours ; if these , however , were able and willing to emigrate to ...
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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 |