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... improvement and of enjoyment . He holds up to view , not the miser denying himself the means of living , and ... improving his condition , physically and morally , and while tracing the laws by which his operations are governed ...
... improvement and of enjoyment . He holds up to view , not the miser denying himself the means of living , and ... improving his condition , physically and morally , and while tracing the laws by which his operations are governed ...
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... improvement in the mode of production tends to improve the quality of labour , and to di- minish the quantity required for the reproduction of similar ar- ticles . With every such improvement there is a diminution in the quantity that ...
... improvement in the mode of production tends to improve the quality of labour , and to di- minish the quantity required for the reproduction of similar ar- ticles . With every such improvement there is a diminution in the quantity that ...
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... improvement of the farms first occupied , whether in the form of houses and barns , or improved roads ; in stores or places of exchange ; tends to maintain their value , which is , however , not equal to the cost of production . With ...
... improvement of the farms first occupied , whether in the form of houses and barns , or improved roads ; in stores or places of exchange ; tends to maintain their value , which is , however , not equal to the cost of production . With ...
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... improvement . These mines will not , however , be worked , unless they will yield as high wages as can be obtained by cultivation . When they are so , these " very inferior soils " yield wages far greater than were to be obtained when ...
... improvement . These mines will not , however , be worked , unless they will yield as high wages as can be obtained by cultivation . When they are so , these " very inferior soils " yield wages far greater than were to be obtained when ...
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... improvement , or to facilitating the ex- change of its products , while the most fertile soils to which labour has not been applied , can command no rent , and have no value to render them worth the labour of appropriation . The man who ...
... improvement , or to facilitating the ex- change of its products , while the most fertile soils to which labour has not been applied , can command no rent , and have no value to render them worth the labour of appropriation . The man who ...
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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.