The Principles of Political Economy Applied to the Condition, the Resources, and the Institutions of the American PeopleLittle, Brown,, 1856 - 546 σελίδες |
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... period of four months . A paper - maker borrows this , buys rags with it , makes paper out of them , sells it , and with the proceeds he pays the bank $ 106 and a fraction . The year has now expired , and our frugal laborer , having ...
... period of four months . A paper - maker borrows this , buys rags with it , makes paper out of them , sells it , and with the proceeds he pays the bank $ 106 and a fraction . The year has now expired , and our frugal laborer , having ...
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... period , and of the same community at different peri- ods ; the nature , and effect upon the wealth , happiness , and numbers of the people , of the various institutions , laws , and customs which have obtained in different countries ...
... period , and of the same community at different peri- ods ; the nature , and effect upon the wealth , happiness , and numbers of the people , of the various institutions , laws , and customs which have obtained in different countries ...
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... period , and of the same community at different peri- ods ; the nature , and effect upon the wealth , happiness , and numbers of the people , of the various institutions , laws , and customs which have obtained in different countries ...
... period , and of the same community at different peri- ods ; the nature , and effect upon the wealth , happiness , and numbers of the people , of the various institutions , laws , and customs which have obtained in different countries ...
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... period " ; and that " the relations , more especially , between the land - owner and the cultivator , and the payments made by the latter to the former , are , in all stages of society but the most modern , determined by the usage of ...
... period " ; and that " the relations , more especially , between the land - owner and the cultivator , and the payments made by the latter to the former , are , in all stages of society but the most modern , determined by the usage of ...
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... period , and therefore at so small an amount , that they became mere quitrents ; and the land was finally ransomed even from these quitrents by commutation on reasonable terms , so that the former serfs became absolute proprietors of ...
... period , and therefore at so small an amount , that they became mere quitrents ; and the land was finally ransomed even from these quitrents by commutation on reasonable terms , so that the former serfs became absolute proprietors of ...
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Σελίδα 476 - The statesman, who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself...
Σελίδα 132 - In two centuries the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 to 9; in three centuries as 4096 to 13, and in two thousand years the difference would be almost incalculable.
Σελίδα 475 - That the maxim of buying in the cheapest market, and selling in the dearest, which regulates every merchant in his individual dealings, is strictly applicable as the best rule for the trade of the whole nation.
Σελίδα 122 - The laws and conditions of the production of wealth, partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional, or arbitrary in them. Whatever mankind produce, must be produced in the modes, and under the conditions, imposed by the constitution of external things, and by the inherent properties of their own bodily and mental structure.
Σελίδα 56 - One of those boys, who loved to play with his companions, observed that, by tying a string from the handle of the valve which opened this communication, to another part of the machine, the valve would open and shut without his assistance, and leave him at liberty to divert himself with his playfellows.
Σελίδα 476 - It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy.
Σελίδα 500 - They were themselves, either from their original condition, or from the necessity of their common interest, nearly on a general level in respect to property. Their situation demanded a parcelling out and division of the lands, and it may be fairly said, that this necessary act fixed the future frame and form of their government. The character of their political institutions was determined by the fundamental laws respecting property.
Σελίδα 225 - The property which every man has in his own labor, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.
Σελίδα 233 - In every society the price of every commodity finally resolves itself into some one or other, or all of those three parts; and in every improved society, all the three enter more or less, as component parts, into the price of the far greater part of commodities.
Σελίδα 10 - What is annually saved is as regularly consumed as what is annually spent, and nearly in the same time too ; but it is consumed by a different set of people.