Elements of Political Economy: With Special Reference to the Industrial History of NationsPorter & Coates, 1882 - 414 стор. |
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... latter began to be studied about the time of the discovery of America , and first gained a place as a recognised science a century ago . There is nothing unusual in this , for nearly every science lags for a time behind its related art ...
... latter began to be studied about the time of the discovery of America , and first gained a place as a recognised science a century ago . There is nothing unusual in this , for nearly every science lags for a time behind its related art ...
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... latter case it can confess none of its acts to be wrongful , since it owns no law or morality above or beyond its own will . It must punish all appeals to " the higher law " as treasonable . The atheistic theory of the state thus ...
... latter case it can confess none of its acts to be wrongful , since it owns no law or morality above or beyond its own will . It must punish all appeals to " the higher law " as treasonable . The atheistic theory of the state thus ...
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... latter or scientific sense it is the power itself developed to more than the average degree . Closely connected with the term wealth is the term value . The one is the antithesis of the other . If wealth is the mea- sure of man's power ...
... latter or scientific sense it is the power itself developed to more than the average degree . Closely connected with the term wealth is the term value . The one is the antithesis of the other . If wealth is the mea- sure of man's power ...
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... latter to keep it compact and able to retain . An excess of either substance imparts to the soil a corresponding defect . In the plant the silex or flint of the sand reappears as the skeleton . The slight and fragile stalks of our ...
... latter to keep it compact and able to retain . An excess of either substance imparts to the soil a corresponding defect . In the plant the silex or flint of the sand reappears as the skeleton . The slight and fragile stalks of our ...
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... latter says : " The doctrine has been accepted by every writer of repute on economical subjects . . . None of the many authors who have questioned or assailed it , . . have been able to shake in any degree its hold upon the public mind ...
... latter says : " The doctrine has been accepted by every writer of repute on economical subjects . . . None of the many authors who have questioned or assailed it , . . have been able to shake in any degree its hold upon the public mind ...
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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...