Political Economy: With Especial Reference to the Industrial History of NationsPorter & Coates, 1882 - 419 стор. |
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... Causes of the Wealth of Nations , 1776 , 1778 , 1784 and 1788 ) occupied him for five years . It shows that he was influenced by the Physio- crates , yet it is a decided advance upon their teachings . He finds the source of wealth in ...
... Causes of the Wealth of Nations , 1776 , 1778 , 1784 and 1788 ) occupied him for five years . It shows that he was influenced by the Physio- crates , yet it is a decided advance upon their teachings . He finds the source of wealth in ...
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... cause beyond the control of the ruling classes . He found that cause in the excessive growth of population , which led to the pressure of numbers upon subsistence , and could only be per- manently controlled by the self - restraint of ...
... cause beyond the control of the ruling classes . He found that cause in the excessive growth of population , which led to the pressure of numbers upon subsistence , and could only be per- manently controlled by the self - restraint of ...
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... cause of the inequality of condition that distinguishes different classes of society . Looking through Whig spectacles , as Malthus had looked through Tory ones , he found that inequality to result not from the operation of a natural ...
... cause of the inequality of condition that distinguishes different classes of society . Looking through Whig spectacles , as Malthus had looked through Tory ones , he found that inequality to result not from the operation of a natural ...
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... caused it to be neglected ; but many of the bishop's notions , especially as to the nature and functions of money , are ahead of current ideas in our age as well as his own . The wretched condition of his native Ireland , its lack of ...
... caused it to be neglected ; but many of the bishop's notions , especially as to the nature and functions of money , are ahead of current ideas in our age as well as his own . The wretched condition of his native Ireland , its lack of ...
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... cause . The first type of society is the family . This , like the state , is a natural form . It is a relationship not constituted by a reflective act of its constituent parts . No man has a choice as to whether he will or will not be ...
... cause . The first type of society is the family . This , like the state , is a natural form . It is a relationship not constituted by a reflective act of its constituent parts . No man has a choice as to whether he will or will not be ...
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Сторінка 186 - The school-boy whips his taxed top ; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid...
Сторінка 76 - My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep ; and my mother milked thirty kine.
Сторінка 186 - Taxes upon every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot ; taxes upon everything which it is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste ; taxes upon warmth, light, and locomotion ; taxes on everything on earth, and the waters under the earth...
Сторінка 73 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Сторінка 384 - The potent traditions of childhood are stereotyped in its verses. The power of all the griefs and trials of a man is hidden beneath its words. It is the representative of his best moments, and all that there has been about him of soft and gentle, and pure and penitent and good, speaks to him for ever out of his English Bible. . . . . It is his sacred thing, which doubt has never dimmed, and controversy never soiled. In the length and breadth of the land there is not a Protestant with one spark of...
Сторінка 186 - ... paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately taxed from 2 to 10 per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble; and he is then gathered to his fathers...
Сторінка 343 - If we examine into the circumstances of the inhabitants of our plantations, and our own, it will appear that not one-fourth part of their product redounds to their own profit, for, out of all that comes here, they only carry back clothing and other accommodations for their families, all of which is of the merchandise and manufacture of this kingdom.
Сторінка 186 - Taxes on everything on earth, and the waters under the earth ; on everything that comes from abroad, or is grown at home. Taxes on the raw material ; taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man.
Сторінка 316 - IT IS TRUE, I CANNOT PREVENT THE INTRODUCTION OF THE FLOWING POISON; GAIN-SEEKING AND CORRUPT MEN WILL, FOR PROFIT AND SENSUALITY, DEFEAT MY WISHES ; BUT NOTHING WILL INDUCE ME TO DERIVE A REVENUE FROM THE VICE AND MISERY OF MY PEOPLE.
Сторінка 37 - Whether it be in the development of the Earth, in the development of Life upon its surface, in the development of Society, of Government, of Manufactures, of Commerce, of Language, Literature, Science, Art, this same evolution of the simple into the complex, through successive differentiations, holds throughout.