Elements of Political Economy: With Special Reference to the Industrial History of NationsPorter & Coates, 1882 - 414 Seiten |
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... secure the largest possible returns to himself , society will receive the largest possible benefit . In the principle of free competition he discerns the tap - root of all national indus- trial life and growth ; the enlightened .and ...
... secure the largest possible returns to himself , society will receive the largest possible benefit . In the principle of free competition he discerns the tap - root of all national indus- trial life and growth ; the enlightened .and ...
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... secure the fullest and freest development of the national life in all worthy directions . As self - preservation is its first duty , there is in- volved in that duty this obligation - to progress in national life . “ The end of the ...
... secure the fullest and freest development of the national life in all worthy directions . As self - preservation is its first duty , there is in- volved in that duty this obligation - to progress in national life . “ The end of the ...
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... the farmer and artisan into neigh- borhood , and secure the consumption of the crops within rea sonable distance of the farm . CHAPTER FOURTH . THE SCIENCE AND ECONOMY OF POPULATION . 48 ELEMENTS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY .
... the farmer and artisan into neigh- borhood , and secure the consumption of the crops within rea sonable distance of the farm . CHAPTER FOURTH . THE SCIENCE AND ECONOMY OF POPULATION . 48 ELEMENTS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY .
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... secure land on any terms . They became tenants - at - will at rack - rents , with the certainty that the improvement of their lands would lead to a rise in their rents . For six generations past the labor of Irish tenants in reclaiming ...
... secure land on any terms . They became tenants - at - will at rack - rents , with the certainty that the improvement of their lands would lead to a rise in their rents . For six generations past the labor of Irish tenants in reclaiming ...
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... secure such tenants without making large outlays in repairs . § 88. Passing from England to the Continent , we find the rival nations growing in the sort of strength that was once but is no longer the boast of England , the yeomanry ...
... secure such tenants without making large outlays in repairs . § 88. Passing from England to the Continent , we find the rival nations growing in the sort of strength that was once but is no longer the boast of England , the yeomanry ...
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Adam Smith adopted agriculture American amount bank Bank of England Belgium black and gold British capital cent century circulation classes Cloth colonies commerce commodities competition 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 Harry Castlemon Horatio Alger Illustrated 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 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
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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 186 - TAXES upon every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot — taxes upon...
Seite 187 - ... 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, to be taxed no more.
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.
Seite 150 - Accordingly we find that in every kingdom into which money begins to flow in greater abundance than formerly, everything takes a new face; labour and industry gain life; the merchant becomes more enterprising, the manufacturer more diligent and skilful, and even the farmer follows his plough with greater alacrity and attention.
Seite 73 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be alone in the midst of the earth.
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 299 - Ireland is the only kingdom I ever heard or read of, either in ancient or modern story, which was denied the liberty of exporting their native commodities and manufactures wherever they pleased, except to countries at war with their own prince or state : yet this privilege, by the superiority of mere power, is refused us in the most momentous parts of commerce...