A Manual of Political EconomyG. P. Putnam & son, 1868 - 259 стор. |
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... becomes capable of sustaining Vegetable and Animal Life - How the Naked Rock of the Land Mountain is crumbled into Soil - The Formation of Vegetable Mould Manner in which it is carried from the Summits to the Valleys in the Dead Form ...
... becomes capable of sustaining Vegetable and Animal Life - How the Naked Rock of the Land Mountain is crumbled into Soil - The Formation of Vegetable Mould Manner in which it is carried from the Summits to the Valleys in the Dead Form ...
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... become regular , and susceptible of strict ascertainment and calculation . Nothing is more uncertain , for example , than the period which an individual of a given age will live . Few things , however , are more certain than that , of ...
... become regular , and susceptible of strict ascertainment and calculation . Nothing is more uncertain , for example , than the period which an individual of a given age will live . Few things , however , are more certain than that , of ...
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... becomes inorganic , resolving himself into the dust whereof he was made . The animal functions , on the contrary , experience periodical inter- ruptions ; their activity is suspended in regular intervals of sleep . Another distinction ...
... becomes inorganic , resolving himself into the dust whereof he was made . The animal functions , on the contrary , experience periodical inter- ruptions ; their activity is suspended in regular intervals of sleep . Another distinction ...
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... become exhausted , so that they may be safely handled . Long repose and abundant food are required to replace the galvanic force which they have exhausted . It is no otherwise , except in degree , with man . The Electro - Magnetic ...
... become exhausted , so that they may be safely handled . Long repose and abundant food are required to replace the galvanic force which they have exhausted . It is no otherwise , except in degree , with man . The Electro - Magnetic ...
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... becomes darker , the bright yellow , which was visible at a distance , changes to a brown , and the bluish - grey of the lepraides becomes a dusty black . The edges of neighbouring patches approach and run into each other ; and on the ...
... becomes darker , the bright yellow , which was visible at a distance , changes to a brown , and the bluish - grey of the lepraides becomes a dusty black . The edges of neighbouring patches approach and run into each other ; and on the ...
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Сторінка 61 - ... it is the law of production from the land, that in any given state of agricultural skill and knowledge...
Сторінка 135 - The patrimony of a poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his hands; and to hinder him from employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper without injury to his neighbour, is a plain violation of this most sacred property.
Сторінка 267 - A country cannot be expected to renounce the power of taxing foreigners, unless foreigners will in return practise towards itself the same forbearance. The only mode in which a country can save itself from being a loser by the revenue duties imposed by other countries on its commodities, is to impose corresponding revenue duties on theirs.
Сторінка 90 - ... second, and it is regulated as before by the difference in their productive powers. At the same time, the rent of the first quality will rise, for that must always be above the rent of the second by the difference between the produce which they yield with a given quantity of capital and labor.
Сторінка 77 - Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil.
Сторінка 255 - The administration of private justice between the citizens of the same State, the supervision of agriculture and of other concerns of a similar nature, all those things, in short, which are proper to be provided for by local legislation, can never be desirable cares of a general jurisdiction.
Сторінка 183 - The capital which is employed in purchasing in one part of the country, in order to sell in another, the produce of the industry of that country, generally replaces, by every such operation, two distinct capitals, that had both been employed in the agriculture or manufactures of that country, and thereby enables them to continue that employment.
Сторінка 178 - ... with quite different tools. A country weaver, who cultivates a small farm, must lose a good deal of time in passing from his loom to the field, and from the field to his loom. When the two trades can be carried on in the same workhouse, the loss of time is no doubt much less. It is even in this case, however, very considerable. A man commonly saunters a little in turning his hand from one sort of employment to another.
Сторінка 20 - It makes entire abstraction of every other human passion or motive; except those which may be regarded as perpetually antagonizing principles to the desire of wealth, namely, aversion to labour, and desire of the present enjoyment of costly indulgences.
Сторінка 171 - Do not look at us. We sit enchanted here, we know not why. The sun shines and the earth calls; and by the governing powers and impotences of this England we are forbidden to obey. It is impossible, they tell us!" There was something that reminded me of Dante's Hell in the look of all this; and I rode swiftly away.