Brief Considerations with Reference to the Corn Laws, and on the Theory of Protection Generally |
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abolition of protection abroad agricultural produce amount of wealth asserted B's corn balance of trade beneficial British farmer burden cæteris paribus cheaper cheapest and dearest Chrematistic commerce Corn Laws course of trade dearest market depreciates diminished diminution direct its chief discontent doctrines economist economy of labour effect employ England equal quantities equal value exchange export and import fall of price foreign corn formerly afforded import trade imports and wealth increase of wealth increase the wealth industry least labour less labour manufactures formerly material wealth means of employment measure money revenue national debt natural course Natural Free Trade occasioned one-eighth PALL MALL philanthropist political economy price of corn price of food principle of protection procured protective duty purchase quantities of labour raising the price result serf Sismondi statesman supposed taxation taxes for current tend unable to compete Utopia value of money vice versâ wages wealth the whole whole amount
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Page 36 - Fictitious bonds, the bonds of wealth and law, Still gather strength, and force unwilling awe. Hence all obedience bows to these alone, And talent sinks, and merit weeps unknown ; Till time may come, when, stript of all her charms, The land of scholars, and the nurse of arms, Where noble stems transmit the patriot flame, Where kings have toil'd, and poets wrote for fame, One sink of level avarice shall lie, And scholars, soldiers, kings, unhonour'd die.
Page 38 - Redress the rigours of the inclement clime; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain; Teach him, that states of native strength...
Page 38 - Though very poor, may still be very blest ; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away ; While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky.