View of the Progress of Political Economy in Europe Since the Sixteenth Century

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Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1847 - Business & Economics - 298 pages
 

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Page 18 - Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture and Furniture : containing numerous Designs, from the Villa to the Cottage and the Farm, including Farm Houses, Farmeries, and other Agricultural Buildings ; Country Inns, Public Houses, and Parochial Schools; with the requisite Fittings-up, Fixtures, and Furniture, and appropriate Offices, Gardens, and Garden Scenery : Each Design accompanied by Analytical and Critical Remarks.
Page 171 - THERE IS ONE SORT of labour which adds to the value of the subject upon which it is bestowed: there is another which has no such effect.
Page 14 - Visits to Remarkable Places : Old Halls, Battle-Fields, and Scenes illustrative of Striking Passages in English History and Poetry. By WILLIAM HOWITT. 2 vols. square crown 8vo. with Wood Engravings, 25s. The Rural Life of England.
Page 172 - THE annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations.
Page 167 - The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.
Page 13 - LAST DAYS OF OUR LORD'S MINISTRY : a Course of Lectures on the principal Events of Passion Week.
Page 167 - The value of any commodity, therefore, to the person who possesses it, and who means not to use or consume it himself, but to exchange it for other commodities, is equal to the quantity of labour which it enables him to purchase or command. Labour, therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities.
Page 14 - AND CHRISTIANITY : A Popular History of the Treatment of the Natives, in all their Colonies, by the Europeans. By WILLIAM HOWITT. Post 8vo.
Page 17 - ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AGRICULTURE: Comprising the Theory and Practice of the Valuation, Transfer, Laying-out. Improvement, and Management of Landed Property, and of the Cultivation and Economy of the Animal and Vegetable productions of Agriculture :" including all the latest I niprovements, a general History of Agriculture in all Countries, a Statistical View of its present State, with Suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles ; and Supplement, bringing down the work to the year 1844.
Page 7 - Europe," &c. With Two Illustrations engraved on Steel. Square fcp. 8vo. 3s. cioth. CRESY.-AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CIVIL ENGINEERING, Historical, Theoretical, and Practical. By EDWARD CRESY, FSACE In One very large Volume, illustrated by upwards of Three Thousand Engravings on Wood, explanatory of the Principles, Machinery, and Constructions which come under the Direction of the Civil Engineer. 8vo. j£3. 13s. 6d. cloth. THE CRICKET-FIELD; OR, THE SCIENCE AND HISTORY of the GAME. Illustrated with Diagrams,...

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