Land, Labor and Liquor: A Chapter in the Political Economy of the Present DayS. R. Briggs, Toronto Willard tract depository, 1887 - 312 стор. |
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Adam Smith alcohol amount annual asylums average barley beer brewers bushels Canada Canadian Canadian wines capital invested cause cent CHAPTER Churches co-operative cognac consumed consumption cost crime criminals death demand destroyed destruction distillery distilling dollars Dominion drink drunkards drunkenness employed England estimate evil expenditure fact farmer gallons give Government grain human desire increase industry insanity intemperance interests intoxicating liquors John Stuart Mill Knights of Labor land license liquor bill liquor traffic living loss malt malt liquors manufacture ment mill millions moral Ontario pauperism police population poverty Powderly prisoners produce productive labor profit proportion quantity quoted result saloon says social society spirits statistics supply temperance testimony thousand tion Toronto trade United Kingdom W. E. Gladstone Wages Paid Washington Gladden waste wealth whiskey whole wine workhouse workmen
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Сторінка 22 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Сторінка 280 - The Angel of Death has been abroad throughout the land ; you may almost hear the beating of his wings.
Сторінка 258 - O madness, to think use of strongest wines, And strongest drinks, our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook ! Sams.
Сторінка 245 - Reputation, reputation, reputation ! O ! I have lost my reputation. I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.
Сторінка 245 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Сторінка 245 - God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!
Сторінка 245 - I will ask him for my place again ; he shall tell me I am a drunkard ! Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer would stop them all. To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast ! O strange ! Every inordinate cup is unblessed and the ingredient is a devil.
Сторінка 121 - But it is to live miserable we know not why; to work sore and yet gain nothing ; to be heart-worn, weary, yet isolated, unrelated, girt in with a cold universal Laissez-faire...
Сторінка 309 - To secure to the workers the full enjoyment of the wealth they create, sufficient leisure in which to develop their intellectual, moral and social faculties; all of the benefits, recreation and pleasures of association; in a word, to enable them to share in the gains and honors of advancing civilization.
Сторінка 23 - Thus wealth, as alone the term can be used in political economy, consists of natural products that have been secured, moved, 'Combined, separated, or in other ways modified by human exertion, so as to fit them for the gratification of human desires.