Principles of Social Science, Том 2J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1860 |
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... sell in , but a bad one in which to buy . That theory contradicted by all the facts of history — the direct tendency of such influx having , and that invariably , been that of re- ducing the prices of the finished commodities required ...
... sell in , but a bad one in which to buy . That theory contradicted by all the facts of history — the direct tendency of such influx having , and that invariably , been that of re- ducing the prices of the finished commodities required ...
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... sell obtains high wages ; whereas , the man who cultivates the earth has unskilled labor to dispose of , and is everywhere almost , even when not quite , a slave ; and yet , the pursuit requiring the highest degree of knowledge , and ...
... sell obtains high wages ; whereas , the man who cultivates the earth has unskilled labor to dispose of , and is everywhere almost , even when not quite , a slave ; and yet , the pursuit requiring the highest degree of knowledge , and ...
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... sell at least $ 10 worth more — thus realiz- ing at the rate of $ 2000 per acre from his land . ” — Cambridge ( Mass . ) Chro- nicle . " A farmer in Beverly , last year , raised , on 24 acres of land , 18,000 cab- bages per acre , the ...
... sell at least $ 10 worth more — thus realiz- ing at the rate of $ 2000 per acre from his land . ” — Cambridge ( Mass . ) Chro- nicle . " A farmer in Beverly , last year , raised , on 24 acres of land , 18,000 cab- bages per acre , the ...
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... sell the seed . * Not only does he sell his wheat in a distant market , and thus impoverish his land , but so does he also , with the very bones of the animals that have been fattened with his corn . The yield , therefore , regularly ...
... sell the seed . * Not only does he sell his wheat in a distant market , and thus impoverish his land , but so does he also , with the very bones of the animals that have been fattened with his corn . The yield , therefore , regularly ...
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... selling price and rent of land had declined , though the price of wheat had risen gradually from 3s . 6d . per quarter before , and 10s . in , the time of Cato , to 60s . in the time of Pliny . The expense of agricultural labor had not ...
... selling price and rent of land had declined , though the price of wheat had risen gradually from 3s . 6d . per quarter before , and 10s . in , the time of Cato , to 60s . in the time of Pliny . The expense of agricultural labor had not ...
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