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... century ago . There is nothing unusual in this , for nearly every science lags for a time behind its related art . Themistocles knew " how to make a small city great " long before Plato and Aristotle ART BEFORE SCIENCE . 15 founded the ...
... century ago . There is nothing unusual in this , for nearly every science lags for a time behind its related art . Themistocles knew " how to make a small city great " long before Plato and Aristotle ART BEFORE SCIENCE . 15 founded the ...
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... century . The circumstances of the times gave shape to these studies . This was the nationalist period of history ... centuries , the discovery of America and the East Indies had brought in a vast and sudden supply , which had given ...
... century . The circumstances of the times gave shape to these studies . This was the nationalist period of history ... centuries , the discovery of America and the East Indies had brought in a vast and sudden supply , which had given ...
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... centuries , and did not recover from it until the French Revolution had carried many very pretty theories to their ... century , and the adhesion given to it by a majority of English , and a great num- ber of Continental and American ...
... centuries , and did not recover from it until the French Revolution had carried many very pretty theories to their ... century , and the adhesion given to it by a majority of English , and a great num- ber of Continental and American ...
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... centuries the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 is to 9 ; in three centuries as 4096 is to 13 ; and in two thousand years the dif- ference would be incalculable " ( Rev. T. R. Malthus ) . Mr. Malthus's Essay on ...
... centuries the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 is to 9 ; in three centuries as 4096 is to 13 ; and in two thousand years the dif- ference would be incalculable " ( Rev. T. R. Malthus ) . Mr. Malthus's Essay on ...
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... earth for ever moving in the same orbit , and emphasizing the fact that " much as our population has increased within the last five centuries , it yet bears a far less ratio to subsistence than it did five hundred years ago . " N. W..
... earth for ever moving in the same orbit , and emphasizing the fact that " much as our population has increased within the last five centuries , it yet bears a far less ratio to subsistence than it did five hundred years ago . " N. W..
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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 186 - TAXES upon every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot — taxes upon...
Сторінка 187 - ... 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, to be taxed no more.
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.
Сторінка 150 - Accordingly we find that in every kingdom into which money begins to flow in greater abundance than formerly, everything takes a new face; labour and industry gain life; the merchant becomes more enterprising, the manufacturer more diligent and skilful, and even the farmer follows his plough with greater alacrity and attention.
Сторінка 73 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be alone in the midst of the earth.
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 299 - Ireland is the only kingdom I ever heard or read of, either in ancient or modern story, which was denied the liberty of exporting their native commodities and manufactures wherever they pleased, except to countries at war with their own prince or state : yet this privilege, by the superiority of mere power, is refused us in the most momentous parts of commerce...