Chapters in Political Economy

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D. Appleton, 1874 - 206 стор.
 

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Сторінка 200 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.
Сторінка 200 - Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the State.
Сторінка 89 - And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
Сторінка 200 - The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain and not arbitrary.
Сторінка 23 - Have I not a right to do what I will with mine own ?" " No ! Divine laws are paramount over human. The latter, indeed, may confer this right upon you, but the former do not. You are as strongly bound by christian and social as by political and civil obligations, and I therefore appeal to you as a Christian to visit your dying child.
Сторінка 79 - Two metals, as gold and silver, cannot be the measure of commerce both together, in any country : because the measure of commerce must be perpetually the same, invariable, and keeping the same proportion of value in all its parts.
Сторінка 146 - Wrecks to be fished for on the Irish Coast — Insurance of Horses, and other Cattle (two millions) — Insurance of Losses by Servants — To make Salt Water Fresh — For building of Hospitals for Bastard Children — For building of Ships against Pirates...
Сторінка 30 - We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations of masters, though frequently of those of workmen. But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject. Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform, combination, not to raise the wages of labour above their actual rate.
Сторінка 179 - The higher the state of civilization," observed Huxley, " the more completely do the actions of one member of the social body influence all the rest, and the less possible is it for any one man to do a wrong without interfering more or less with the freedom of all his fellow-citizens.
Сторінка 38 - They are weaving their own stuffs, making their own shoes, sewing their own garments, and grinding their own corn. They buy the purest sugar and the best tea, and grind their own coffee. They slaughter their own cattle, and the finest beasts of the land waddle, down the streets of Rochdale for the consumption of flannel-weavers and cobblers.

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