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... laws of both those forces , and a combination of the re- sults , we obtain the law of the effect , which is compounded of the laws of all the causes which determine it . Herein consists the Science of Astronomy . By a separate ...
... laws of both those forces , and a combination of the re- sults , we obtain the law of the effect , which is compounded of the laws of all the causes which determine it . Herein consists the Science of Astronomy . By a separate ...
Page x
... laws of Attraction . The utter impossibility of limiting the science within the terms of the definition , will be ... laws of pro- duction and distribution , occupies the greater part of his work . The laws of the production and ...
... laws of Attraction . The utter impossibility of limiting the science within the terms of the definition , will be ... laws of pro- duction and distribution , occupies the greater part of his work . The laws of the production and ...
Page xi
... laws , which laws are therefore the ultimate regulators ' of the division of produce ; ) and employing certain expedients ( as money , credit , & c . , ) to facitate the distribution . All these ' operations , though many of them are ...
... laws , which laws are therefore the ultimate regulators ' of the division of produce ; ) and employing certain expedients ( as money , credit , & c . , ) to facitate the distribution . All these ' operations , though many of them are ...
Page xii
... laws by which his operations are governed , indicates the means by which the desired end may be attained . When he has thus ascertained the laws by which the operations of man are governed , it becomes necessary to examine into the ...
... laws by which his operations are governed , indicates the means by which the desired end may be attained . When he has thus ascertained the laws by which the operations of man are governed , it becomes necessary to examine into the ...
Page xv
... laws of nature , and having explained them for the benefit of the mariner , his duty is performed , and he leaves to him the management of his vessel . Such is the case with the political economist . He seeks to understand the laws of ...
... laws of nature , and having explained them for the benefit of the mariner , his duty is performed , and he leaves to him the management of his vessel . Such is the case with the political economist . He seeks to understand the laws of ...
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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.