Political Economy, with Especial Reference to the Industrial History of NationsPorter & Coates, 1882 - 415 Seiten |
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... England , from the sixteenth century . The circumstances of the times gave shape to these studies . This was the ... ( England's Treasure by Foreign Trade , 1664 ) ; Andrew Yarranton ( England's Improvement by Land and Sea , 1677-81 ) ...
... England , from the sixteenth century . The circumstances of the times gave shape to these studies . This was the ... ( England's Treasure by Foreign Trade , 1664 ) ; Andrew Yarranton ( England's Improvement by Land and Sea , 1677-81 ) ...
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... England , for instance , is 26 bushels to the acre . But the fact that 57 and even 60 bushels have been grown is enough to show that England is under no necessity to import one - fourth of her bread- stuffs . Only a very small part of ...
... England , for instance , is 26 bushels to the acre . But the fact that 57 and even 60 bushels have been grown is enough to show that England is under no necessity to import one - fourth of her bread- stuffs . Only a very small part of ...
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... England about 7,500,000 , and the rest is in Scotland . Most of this is in the moun- tainous counties , northern and south - western ; but over 18 per cent . of the most fertile parts of the kingdom are still uncultivated . Outside of ...
... England about 7,500,000 , and the rest is in Scotland . Most of this is in the moun- tainous counties , northern and south - western ; but over 18 per cent . of the most fertile parts of the kingdom are still uncultivated . Outside of ...
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... England the popula- tion doubles about once in 47 years , while the annual death - rate is one in 44. In France , with the same death - rate , there is hardly any increase , if not an actual decline . In Prussia the increase is as great ...
... England the popula- tion doubles about once in 47 years , while the annual death - rate is one in 44. In France , with the same death - rate , there is hardly any increase , if not an actual decline . In Prussia the increase is as great ...
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... England the population is said to have been almost stationary under the Tudors . In six censuses taken during the present century beginning with 1811 , the rate of increase . was found to be 14 , 18 , 16 , 14 , 13 and 12 per cent . for ...
... England the population is said to have been almost stationary under the Tudors . In six censuses taken during the present century beginning with 1811 , the rate of increase . was found to be 14 , 18 , 16 , 14 , 13 and 12 per cent . for ...
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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 Prussia raised raw materials rent revenue 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 38 - And the eye cannot say to the hand, ' I have no need of thee ' ; nor again the head to the feet,
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 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 384 - Who will not say that the uncommon beauty and marvellous English of the Protestant Bible is not one of the great strongholds of heresy in this country ? It lives on the ear, like a music that can never be forgotten, like the sound of church bells, which the convert hardly knows how he can forego.
Seite 76 - He had walk for an hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember that I buckled his harness when he went to Blackheath field.
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 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 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 250 - But it cannot be expected that individuals should, at their own risk, or rather to their certain loss, introduce a new manufacture, and bear the burden of carrying it on, until the producers have been educated up to the level of those with whom the processes are traditional.
Seite 251 - But, though it were true that the immediate and certain effect of regulations controlling the competition of foreign with domestic fabrics was an increase of price, it is universally true that the contrary is the ultimate effect with every successful manufacture. When a domestic manufacture has attained to perfection, and has engaged in the prosecution of it a competent number of persons, it invariably becomes cheaper.