The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 46A. Constable, 1827 |
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... labour may really be lower in this country than in France . We do not , however , pretend to form an accurate estimate of the comparative price of labour in the two countries ; but we have been assured , by gentlemen of great experience ...
... labour may really be lower in this country than in France . We do not , however , pretend to form an accurate estimate of the comparative price of labour in the two countries ; but we have been assured , by gentlemen of great experience ...
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... labour is really cheaper in France than in England , it will not require any very elaborate argument to show that ... labour , while others , as cotton twist , for example , are al- most entirely the produce of the labour of fixed ...
... labour is really cheaper in France than in England , it will not require any very elaborate argument to show that ... labour , while others , as cotton twist , for example , are al- most entirely the produce of the labour of fixed ...
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... labour , are erected , the one in France and the other in England ; and suppose , farther , that the machines cost L.20,000 each , and that the common and average rate of nett profit in France is six , and in England only five per cent ...
... labour , are erected , the one in France and the other in England ; and suppose , farther , that the machines cost L.20,000 each , and that the common and average rate of nett profit in France is six , and in England only five per cent ...
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... labour of the hand . And such , in point of fact , is the exact relative condition of Great Britain and the Continental States . The bulk of our exports consists of cotton and woollen stuffs and yarn , hardware , and other ar- ticles ...
... labour of the hand . And such , in point of fact , is the exact relative condition of Great Britain and the Continental States . The bulk of our exports consists of cotton and woollen stuffs and yarn , hardware , and other ar- ticles ...
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... labour were we to set about making any lengthened statements to prove their infinite superiority in this respect over the peasantry of the country . This , indeed , is only what every unprejudiced inquirer would a priori have an ...
... labour were we to set about making any lengthened statements to prove their infinite superiority in this respect over the peasantry of the country . This , indeed , is only what every unprejudiced inquirer would a priori have an ...
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Page 169 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the gospel, and the protestant reformed religion established by law ? And will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them? — King or queen. All this I promise to do.
Page 276 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in— glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Page 187 - He has an intellect vehement, rugged, irresistible ; crushing in pieces the hardest problems; piercing into the most hidden combinations of things, and grasping the most distant: an imagination vague, sombre, splendid, or appalling; brooding over the abysses of Being; wandering through Infinitude, and summoning before us, in its dim religious light, shapes of brilliancy, solemnity, or terror: a fancy of exuberance literally unexampled...
Page 188 - True humour springs not more from the head than from the heart ; it is not contempt, its essence is love ; it issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
Page 17 - ENCYCLOPEDIA of AGRICULTURE: comprising the Laying-out, Improvement, and Management of Landed Property, and the Cultivation and Economy of the Productions of Agriculture. With 1,100 Woodcuts. 8vo.
Page 283 - Where popular discontents have been very prevalent; it may well be affirmed and supported, that there has been generally something found amiss in the constitution, or in the conduct of Government. The people have no interest in disorder. When they do wrong, it is their error, and not their crime. But with the governing part of the State, it is far otherwise. They certainly may act ill by design, as well as by mistake.
Page 180 - ... age, will not seem thrown away. Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him,, we think, that has reached this country, is his saying, imported by Madame de Stael, and thankfully pocketed by most newspaper critics: — 'Providence has given to the ' French the empire of the land, to the English that of the ' sea, to the Germans that of — the air...
Page 284 - The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to be a control upon the people, as of late it has been taught, by a doctrine of the most pernicious tendency. It was designed as a control for the people.
Page 276 - A species of men to whom a state of order would become a sentence of obscurity, are nourished into a dangerous magnitude by the heat of intestine disturbances ; and it is no wonder that, by a sort of sinister piety, they cherish, in their turn, the disorders which are the parents of all their consequence.
Page 174 - Though I do not pretend to have the power of changing Mr. Pitt's opinion, when thus unfortunately fixed, yet I shall hope his sense of duty will prevent his retiring from his present situation to the end of my life; for I can with great truth assert that I shall, from public and private considerations, feel great regret if I shall ever find myself obliged at any time, from a sense of religious and political duty, to yield to his entreaties of retiring from his seat at the Board of Treasury.