Principles of Political EconomyKelley, 1837 - Economics |
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... become the principal , perhaps the " sole guides in the conduct of affairs . " To prove this is the object we have in view . How far we shall be successful in the attempt we must leave to our readers to determine . We feel assured that ...
... become the principal , perhaps the " sole guides in the conduct of affairs . " To prove this is the object we have in view . How far we shall be successful in the attempt we must leave to our readers to determine . We feel assured that ...
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... become the owner of one . When A. possessed the only house in the settlement , he would have demanded of B. , for permission to use it for a year , a much larger number of days ' labour than B. would be willing to give when the ...
... become the owner of one . When A. possessed the only house in the settlement , he would have demanded of B. , for permission to use it for a year , a much larger number of days ' labour than B. would be willing to give when the ...
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... become , but they are not wanted , and have no exchangeable value . A few years afterwards we find that population has extended itself to or beyond it ; that capital has been brought with population ; and that roads have been made . The ...
... become , but they are not wanted , and have no exchangeable value . A few years afterwards we find that population has extended itself to or beyond it ; that capital has been brought with population ; and that roads have been made . The ...
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... becomes the centre of a flourishing manufacturing district , as that of Lowell has become . The natural agent has nothing that it did not possess forty , or four hundred , years before , but capital has rendered its powers productive ...
... becomes the centre of a flourishing manufacturing district , as that of Lowell has become . The natural agent has nothing that it did not possess forty , or four hundred , years before , but capital has rendered its powers productive ...
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... becomes useful , because it facili- tates the arrangements they wish to make , but there is still no difference in the value ... become the centre of business , while the produce of the other has to surmount the hill , or mountain , that ...
... becomes useful , because it facili- tates the arrangements they wish to make , but there is still no difference in the value ... become the centre of business , while the produce of the other has to surmount the hill , or mountain , that ...
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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.