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... Agriculture , the ave- rage proportion which rent bears to the value of the whole produce seems not ' to exceed one - fifth ; whereas formerly , when there was less capital employed and less value produced , the proportion amounted to ...
... Agriculture , the ave- rage proportion which rent bears to the value of the whole produce seems not ' to exceed one - fifth ; whereas formerly , when there was less capital employed and less value produced , the proportion amounted to ...
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... agriculture . The lower strata of coal are in the situation of the dormant powers of land subjected to cultivation . When coal mines are worked with indifferent machinery , capable of extracting the coal from only a moderate depth , the ...
... agriculture . The lower strata of coal are in the situation of the dormant powers of land subjected to cultivation . When coal mines are worked with indifferent machinery , capable of extracting the coal from only a moderate depth , the ...
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... agriculture were allowed to rust on the banks of the rivers - seeds of various kinds rotted in casks on the beach for want of sowing , and sheep , cattle and horses perished ' because there was no one to attend them . The crisis came ...
... agriculture were allowed to rust on the banks of the rivers - seeds of various kinds rotted in casks on the beach for want of sowing , and sheep , cattle and horses perished ' because there was no one to attend them . The crisis came ...
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... agriculture is the chief employment , and among whom the scarcity of capital has prevented its im- provement , resembling , therefore , in some degree , the people of England in earlier times . Such a state of things we find in Ire ...
... agriculture is the chief employment , and among whom the scarcity of capital has prevented its im- provement , resembling , therefore , in some degree , the people of England in earlier times . Such a state of things we find in Ire ...
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... agriculture . " + Moryson , who wrote in this reign , says " the English husbandmen eat barley and rye brown . bread , and prefer it to white bread , as abiding longer in the stomach and not so soon digested . " + Mr. M'Culloch says ...
... agriculture . " + Moryson , who wrote in this reign , says " the English husbandmen eat barley and rye brown . bread , and prefer it to white bread , as abiding longer in the stomach and not so soon digested . " + Mr. M'Culloch says ...
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Page 187 - Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil.
Page 10 - In the name of God, amen. We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign Lord King James, by the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, etc., having undertaken, for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith and honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia...
Page 10 - God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Page 190 - It is only, then, because land. is not unlimited in quantity and uniform in quality, and because, in the progress of population, land of an inferior quality, or less advantageously situated, is called into cultivation, that rent is ever paid for the use of it.
Page 310 - Men are much more likely to discover easier and readier methods of attaining any object when the whole attention of their minds is directed towards that single object than when it is dissipated among a great variety of things. But in consequence of the division of labour...
Page 310 - ... the increase of dexterity in every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of time, which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another; and, lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many.
Page 57 - We will suppose the means of subsistence in any country just equal to the easy support of its inhabitants. The constant effort towards population, which is found to act even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased.
Page 459 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Page 241 - ... any body politic or corporate whatsoever, erected or to be erected, or for any other persons whatsoever united or to be united in covenants or partnership, exceeding the number of six persons, in that part of Great Britain called England, to borrow, owe, or take up any sum or sums of money on their bills or notes payable at demand, or at any less time than six months from the borrowing thereof...
Page 459 - Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of. both the Poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game, along the coast of Brazil.