 | James Platt - 1876 - 218 стор.
...unprofitable lives. By all means they must have their rents and interests as it is written in the bond ; bat let them take their proper place as drones in the...at a feast to which they have contributed nothing. It is a fundamental law of demand and supply that the supply of a commodity always tends to adapt itself... | |
 | 1877 - 626 стор.
...from the existence of an idle rich class. . . . The wealth accumulated by their ancestors or others in their behalf, where it is employed as capital, no...at a feast to which they have contributed nothing.' There will be various readings, from various social stand-points, of the words ' idle rich.' From the... | |
 | 1877 - 626 стор.
...from the existence of an idle rich class. . . . The wealth accumulated by their ancestors or others in their behalf, where it is employed as capital, no...at a feast to which they have contributed nothing.' There will be various readings, from various social standpoints, of the words ' idle rich.' From the... | |
 | James Goulton Constable - 1880 - 178 стор.
...' state of enjoyment. It is by ' this class of men that knowl' edge is cultivated and enlarged ; ' as drones in the hive, gorging 'at a feast to which they have 'contributed nothing." ' it is by this class of men that ' it is diffused ; it is this class ' of men whose children receive... | |
 | 1906 - 1160 стор.
...Deputy-Master of the Mint, 1889 ;. Mr. Goschen's Speech on Second Reading of the Coinage Act, 1891). proper place as drones in the hive, gorging at a feast to which they have contributed nothing " (Somi Ltading Principles of Political Sconomy, p. 33, by the late John Elliott Cairnes, MA, Emeritus... | |
 | 1887 - 362 стор.
...from some frond of his, and which I supposes as he intends as a complement, "let the idol rich still take their proper place as drones in the hive, gorging...at a feast to which they have contributed nothing," and he might have added, and never never forgetting the Waiter. ROBERT. MR. PUNCH was pleased to notice... | |
 | Sidney Webb, Sydney Haldane Olivier Baron Olivier, Annie Besant, Graham Wallas - 1889 - 260 стор.
...lives. By all means the; must have their rents and Interest, as it is written In the bond ; bnt let then take their proper place as drones in the hive, gorging at a feast to which they have contributed nothing."1 The fact that the modern capitalist may be not only useless but positively obstructive was... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1892 - 176 стор.
...employed as capital, no doubt helps to sustain industry ; but what they consume in idleness and luxury is not capital, and helps to sustain nothing but their...at a feast to which they have contributed nothing." 1 Here, however, the moral outburst counts for nothing in view of the economic doctrine ; inasmuch... | |
 | Henry Dyer - 1895 - 318 стор.
...have their rents and interest, as it is written in the bond; but let them take their proper places as drones in the hive, gorging at a feast to which they have contributed nothing." From a scientific point of view, and therefore from a moral point of view, no man or woman, unless... | |
 | Charles Richmond Henderson - 1897 - 364 стор.
...expenditure of the idle Luxurious rich, turns out to be a sheer illusion. Political economy furs. nishes no such palliation of unmitigated selfishness. Not...at a feast to which they have contributed nothing. (JE Cairnes, " Political Economy.") Let us heed the voice of a historian, commenting on the service... | |
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The wealth accumulated by their ancestors or others on their behalf, where it is employed as capital, no doubt helps to sustain industry; but what they consume in luxury and idleness is not capital, and helps to sustain nothing but their own unprofitable... 
