The Principles of Population: And Their Connection with Human Happiness, Том 2W. Blackwood and sons, 1840 - 544 стор. |
З цієї книги
Результати 1-4 із 4
Сторінка x
... tivation , and that strenuous and unremitting labour which is the destiny of man in every situation , but is more peculiarly necessary in the first periods of his history , before government has assumed a set- tled form , and when he is ...
... tivation , and that strenuous and unremitting labour which is the destiny of man in every situation , but is more peculiarly necessary in the first periods of his history , before government has assumed a set- tled form , and when he is ...
Сторінка 102
... tivation . If we would learn how these changes are to be pro- duced in individuals , we have only to attend to the process by which the same change is effected by Na- ture in society . It is not by moral lectures , or learned treatises ...
... tivation . If we would learn how these changes are to be pro- duced in individuals , we have only to attend to the process by which the same change is effected by Na- ture in society . It is not by moral lectures , or learned treatises ...
Сторінка 483
... tivation , it would , if peopled like the British isles , con- tain 636,000,000 of souls ; and if worked up in the same manner as England , in the foregoing view , it would yield food sufficient for fifteen hundred mil- lions . * In ...
... tivation , it would , if peopled like the British isles , con- tain 636,000,000 of souls ; and if worked up in the same manner as England , in the foregoing view , it would yield food sufficient for fifteen hundred mil- lions . * In ...
Сторінка 499
... tivation . Notwithstanding these local inconveniences , Oceanica pre- sents to the industrious , the healthy , and the temperate , a greater di- versity of delightful climates than any other part of the world . Such islands as are small ...
... tivation . Notwithstanding these local inconveniences , Oceanica pre- sents to the industrious , the healthy , and the temperate , a greater di- versity of delightful climates than any other part of the world . Such islands as are small ...
Інші видання - Показати все
Загальні терміни та фрази
advantage afford agricultural arises Britain British empire British islands British manufactures British navy burden cause charity church circumstances cities civilisation colonies comfort commercial consequence Corn Laws corruption crime cultivation depravity desire destitute distress duties effect empire England enjoyments equally established Europe evil existence exports foreign grain France funds Glasgow globe growth habits human important improvement increase indigent individual industry influence inhabitants instruction interest Ireland islands labour labouring classes landed property legal relief lower orders maintain mankind means ment millions misery moral nature necessity nerally never Norway object opulence passion period permanent persons Poland poor laws population present principle produce progress proportion proprietors prosperity proved Prussia quarters race racter ranks reciprocity system religion religious render rience Scotland society South Wales species subsistence Sweden tendency tion tivation trade United Kingdom vast vice Voluntary wants wealth whole
Популярні уривки
Сторінка 517 - Their starting-point is different, and their courses are not the same; yet each of them seems to be marked out by the will of Heaven to sway the destinies of half the globe.
Сторінка 398 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Сторінка 516 - There are at the present time, two great nations in the world which seem to tend towards the same end, although they started from different points; I allude to the Russians and the Americans.
Сторінка 399 - Come, bright Improvement ! on the car of Time, And rule the spacious world from clime to clime ; Thy handmaid arts shall every wild explore, Trace every wave, and culture every shore.
Сторінка 507 - ... are continually in operation throughout the country, they ultimately impart an irresistible impulse to the national character. The American, taken as a chance specimen of his countrymen, must then be a man of singular warmth in his desires, enterprising, fond of adventure, and above all of innovation. The same bent is manifest in all that he does ; he introduces it into his political laws, his religious doctrines, his theories of social economy, and his domestic occupations ; he bears it with...
Сторінка 510 - This gradual and continuous progress of the European race towards the Rocky Mountains has the solemnity of a providential event ; it is like a deluge of men rising unabatedly, and daily driven onward by the hand of God.
Сторінка 506 - America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion, and every change seems an improvement.
Сторінка 385 - Gulf of Mexico, and from the Mississippi to the Atlantic Ocean, there is not one pauper to be found. Such are the customers whom America presents to us. The rapid increase of their culture and population too, doubling in twenty-five or thirty years, must necessarily augment this demand for our goods in the same proportion. Circumstanced as the two countries are, I use no figure of speech, but speak the simple fact when I say, that not an axe falls in the woods of America which does not put in motion...
Сторінка 268 - No ! we will have her to exalt her mitred front in courts and parliaments. We will have her mixed throughout the whole mass of life, and blended with all the classes of society. The people of England will...
Сторінка 512 - The time will therefore come when one hundred and fifty millions of men will be living in North America,* equal in condition, the progeny of one race, owing their origin to the same cause, and preserving the same civilization, the same language, the same religion, the same habits, the same manners, and imbued with the same opinions, propagated under the same forms. The rest is uncertain, but this is certain ; and it is a fact new to the world — a fact fraught with such portentous consequences as...