An Inquiry Into the Causes of the General Poverty and Dependence of Mankind: Including as Full an Investigation of the Corn LawsJ. Anderson & Company, 1814 - Всего страниц: 330 |
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Стр. 38 - It may be laid down as a maxim, that wherever a great deal can be made by the use of money, a great deal will commonly be given for the use of it ; and that wherever little can be made by it, less will commonly be given for it.
Стр. 136 - ... the greater number escaped censure, either from the superior cunning of the felons, the remissness of the magistrates, or the foolish lenity of the people : that the rapines committed by the infinite number of wicked, wandering, idle people, were intolerable to the poor countrymen, and obliged them to...
Стр. 43 - If in the same neighbourhood, there was any employment evidently either more or less advantageous than the rest, so many people would crowd into it in the one case, and so many would desert it in the other, that its advantages would soon return to the level of other employments.
Стр. 33 - THE produce of labour constitutes the natural recompense or wages of labour. In that original state of things, which precedes both the appropriation of land and the accumulation of stock, the whole produce of labour belongs to the labourer. He has neither landlord nor master to share with him.
Стр. 65 - An Act for regulating the importation and exportation of Corn, and the payment of the duty on foreign Corn imported, and of the bounty on British Corn exported...
Стр. 137 - Somersetshire; and many of them were even in a worse: that there were at least three or four hundred able-bodied vagabonds in every county, who lived by theft and rapine; and who sometimes met in troops to the number of sixty, and committed spoil on the inhabitants...
Стр. 38 - According, therefore, as the usual market rate of interest varies in any country, we may be assured that the ordinary profits of stock must vary with it, must sink as it sinks, and rise as it rises. The progress of interest, therefore, may lead us to form some notion of the progress of profit.
Стр. 136 - The author says that forty persons had there been executed in a year for robberies, thefts, and other felonies ; thirty-five burnt in the hand ; thirty-seven whipped ; one hundred and eighty-three discharged. That those who were discharged were most wicked and desperate persons, who never could come to any good, because they would not work, and none would take them into service.
Стр. 12 - ... the populous and manufacturing counties in some parts of the island, can draw the necessary supplies from other parts which are less populous, but more productive of corn. " In other countries, magazines of corn are formed by their respective governments, or by the principal magistrates of great cities, as a resource in times of scarcity. This country has no such institution. The stores of corn are here deposited in the barns and stacks of wealthy farmers, and in the magazines of merchants and...
Стр. 109 - Forasmuch as it hath been found by experience, that the exportation of corn and grain into foreign parts, when the price thereof is at a low rate in this kingdom, hath been a great advantage, not only to the owners of land, but to the trade of this kingdom in general,