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... former species sold for 50 guineas , while the native obtained in exchange the value of 28 .'- King's Arctic Expedition . + From a statistical account of the Lordship of Pulaway and Kouskowola , in the province of Lublin , in Poland ...
... former species sold for 50 guineas , while the native obtained in exchange the value of 28 .'- King's Arctic Expedition . + From a statistical account of the Lordship of Pulaway and Kouskowola , in the province of Lublin , in Poland ...
Page 92
... former by one or two per cent . In the disturbed state in which that country has been for so long a period , money has been lent by some at a high rate of interest , while others have kept it in their strong boxes , producing nothing ...
... former by one or two per cent . In the disturbed state in which that country has been for so long a period , money has been lent by some at a high rate of interest , while others have kept it in their strong boxes , producing nothing ...
Page 123
... , a clear income , equal to that which any other mode of employing it would yield him . The former is rewarded by an increased power of making wages . of the city , and a valuation made of the COST AND VALUE OF EXISTING LANDED CAPITAL .
... , a clear income , equal to that which any other mode of employing it would yield him . The former is rewarded by an increased power of making wages . of the city , and a valuation made of the COST AND VALUE OF EXISTING LANDED CAPITAL .
Page 153
... more extensive than at any former period . Interferences prevent , for a time , the operation of the laws of nature , but the latter must triumph in the end . individuals . If the price paid to the maker of 20 FLUCTUATIONS OF PRICE . 153.
... more extensive than at any former period . Interferences prevent , for a time , the operation of the laws of nature , but the latter must triumph in the end . individuals . If the price paid to the maker of 20 FLUCTUATIONS OF PRICE . 153.
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... former wages per pound ; but he turns off double weight of work in the same time , namely , thirty - two pounds , instead of sixteen . His gross receipts are therefore 28. 5d . multiplied into thirty - two , or 778. 4d . He now re ...
... former wages per pound ; but he turns off double weight of work in the same time , namely , thirty - two pounds , instead of sixteen . His gross receipts are therefore 28. 5d . multiplied into thirty - two , or 778. 4d . He now re ...
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Page 15 - 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 15 - 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 315 - 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 205 - Corn is not high because a rent is paid, but a rent is paid because corn is high ; and it has been justly observed, that no reduction would take place in the price of corn, although landlords should forego the whole of their rent.
Page 315 - ... 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 466 - 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.
Page 195 - ... in which there is an abundance of rich and fertile land, a very small proportion of which is required to be cultivated for the support of the actual population, or indeed can be cultivated with the capital which the population can command, there will be no rent; for no one would pay for the use of land, when there was an abundant quantity not yet appropriated and, therefore, at the disposal of whosoever might choose to cultivate it.
Page 64 - 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 192 - 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 466 - 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.