Elements of Political Economy: With Special Reference to the Industrial History of NationsPorter & Coates, 1882 - 414 стор. |
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... announce that commodities are always paid for in commodities , and that there . fore to check the amount of imports is to limit in equal measure CC MALTHUS ON POPULATION . " 21 the power of 20 ELEMENTS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY .
... announce that commodities are always paid for in commodities , and that there . fore to check the amount of imports is to limit in equal measure CC MALTHUS ON POPULATION . " 21 the power of 20 ELEMENTS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY .
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... equal strides . In the earlier stages the pressure of popu- lation upon the means of subsistence is marked and painful ; yet beneficent , as thrusting men into closer and more helpful association , and forcing them to adopt wiser and ...
... equal strides . In the earlier stages the pressure of popu- lation upon the means of subsistence is marked and painful ; yet beneficent , as thrusting men into closer and more helpful association , and forcing them to adopt wiser and ...
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... equal to a thousand millions , the human species would , " if the growth were thus unchecked , " increase as the numbers 1 , 2 , 4 , 8 , 16 , 32 , 64 , 128 , 256 ; and subsist- ence as 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8. In two centuries the ...
... equal to a thousand millions , the human species would , " if the growth were thus unchecked , " increase as the numbers 1 , 2 , 4 , 8 , 16 , 32 , 64 , 128 , 256 ; and subsist- ence as 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8. In two centuries the ...
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... equal , it prefers the largest purchaser to any other , and even abates the price in his favor ; for the ultimate object being to get wealth enough to be rid of the trouble of getting it , the offer that involves least trouble is the ...
... equal , it prefers the largest purchaser to any other , and even abates the price in his favor ; for the ultimate object being to get wealth enough to be rid of the trouble of getting it , the offer that involves least trouble is the ...
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... equal in extent but of various degrees of fertility , and each large enough to employ a hundred laborers . The best land in the series can produce ( let us say ) 900 bushels of wheat , giving nine bushels to each laborer if there be an ...
... equal in extent but of various degrees of fertility , and each large enough to employ a hundred laborers . The best land in the series can produce ( let us say ) 900 bushels of wheat , giving nine bushels to each laborer if there be an ...
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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...