Political Economy: With Especial Reference to the Industrial History of NationsPorter & Coates, 1882 - 419 Seiten |
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... growth of the three great industries , through whose association men advance from the poverty of the savage life to material welfare , he pronounces against all efforts of the state to direct and foster any one of the three , as most ...
... growth of the three great industries , through whose association men advance from the poverty of the savage life to material welfare , he pronounces against all efforts of the state to direct and foster any one of the three , as most ...
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... growth of population , which led to the pressure of numbers upon subsistence , and could only be per- manently controlled by the self - restraint of the lower classes themselves . This discovery was a godsend to the cosmopolitical ...
... growth of population , which led to the pressure of numbers upon subsistence , and could only be per- manently controlled by the self - restraint of the lower classes themselves . This discovery was a godsend to the cosmopolitical ...
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... growth of capital , and divided pro rata among the workmen of a coun- try , is a fiction . He especially exhibited the disastrous effects of English theories upon English agriculture , in separating the mass of the people from the soil ...
... growth of capital , and divided pro rata among the workmen of a coun- try , is a fiction . He especially exhibited the disastrous effects of English theories upon English agriculture , in separating the mass of the people from the soil ...
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... growth in the practical examples offered by the new world . As the country was then making rapid advances in wealth , under the protection of a nationalist policy , he had a large field for study , and repaid what he learnt with his ...
... growth in the practical examples offered by the new world . As the country was then making rapid advances in wealth , under the protection of a nationalist policy , he had a large field for study , and repaid what he learnt with his ...
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... in the ancient world , and the antipathy of the race to the town life wore off . But before these new municipalities were powerful enough to hinder the national growth , the nation had become an established fact . A second enemy of 3.
... in the ancient world , and the antipathy of the race to the town life wore off . But before these new municipalities were powerful enough to hinder the national growth , the nation had become an established fact . A second enemy of 3.
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Adam Smith adopted agriculture American amount bank Bank of England Belgium better British capital cent century circulation classes colonies commerce commodities competition consumer coöperation cotton crops currency custom Dallas tariff demand duties economists economy effect employed England English especially established Europe exchange existence export fact factures farmer farming foreign France free trade French furnish Germany give growth hand Herbert Spencer imported improvement increase India industry interest Ireland Irish J. S. Mill labor land less Lord Dufferin manu manufactures ment methods monopoly native natural paid political population possession produce profits prosperity protection raised raw materials rent revenue Russia says secure sell society soil supply tariff tariff of 1824 taxation theory things tillage tion W. R. Greg wages wealth whole woollen workmen Zollverein
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 186 - Taxes upon every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot ; taxes upon everything which it is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste ; taxes upon warmth, light, and locomotion ; taxes on everything on earth, and the waters under the earth...
Seite 73 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Seite 384 - The potent traditions of childhood are stereotyped in its verses. The power of all the griefs and trials of a man is hidden beneath its words. It is the representative of his best moments, and all that there has been about him of soft and gentle, and pure and penitent and good, speaks to him for ever out of his English Bible. . . . . It is his sacred thing, which doubt has never dimmed, and controversy never soiled. In the length and breadth of the land there is not a Protestant with one spark of...
Seite 186 - ... 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...
Seite 343 - If we examine into the circumstances of the inhabitants of our plantations, and our own, it will appear that not one-fourth part of their product redounds to their own profit, for, out of all that comes here, they only carry back clothing and other accommodations for their families, all of which is of the merchandise and manufacture of this kingdom.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.