EconomySimpkin, Marshal, 1882 - 208 páginas |
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... commodity . The plausible sophistry of the most skilled rhetori- cian of his age may throw dust in the eyes of his infatuated followers , but to me it is pitiful that so fine a career should be marred by trying to " improve upon the ...
... commodity . The plausible sophistry of the most skilled rhetori- cian of his age may throw dust in the eyes of his infatuated followers , but to me it is pitiful that so fine a career should be marred by trying to " improve upon the ...
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... commodities ; and we find that all goods are at their highest price in those countries that look to the Legislature to " protect " them against the competition of their rivals . " Free trade " develops in a nation those qualities on ...
... commodities ; and we find that all goods are at their highest price in those countries that look to the Legislature to " protect " them against the competition of their rivals . " Free trade " develops in a nation those qualities on ...
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... commodities , and the increased abundance and comfort which result to the whole family of mankind . " Remember , man , the Universal Cause Acts not by partial , but by general laws ; And makes what happiness we justly call Subsist not ...
... commodities , and the increased abundance and comfort which result to the whole family of mankind . " Remember , man , the Universal Cause Acts not by partial , but by general laws ; And makes what happiness we justly call Subsist not ...
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... commodities having , moreover , fallen in the interval : - 1870 . 1879 . Rate of Increase . Tea , lbs . Coffee , lbs . 3.81 .. 4.70 .. 0.98 1.00 Sugar , lbs . Tobacco , lbs . 47.23 1.34 66.24 23 per cent . 2 " " 40 " " 1.41 5 ...
... commodities having , moreover , fallen in the interval : - 1870 . 1879 . Rate of Increase . Tea , lbs . Coffee , lbs . 3.81 .. 4.70 .. 0.98 1.00 Sugar , lbs . Tobacco , lbs . 47.23 1.34 66.24 23 per cent . 2 " " 40 " " 1.41 5 ...
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... commodity ; it is an effort that must drain capital out of the country , and with it that confidence by which alone nations can make progress . 99 National success needs " capital and confidence . " The fertility of Ireland has never ...
... commodity ; it is an effort that must drain capital out of the country , and with it that confidence by which alone nations can make progress . 99 National success needs " capital and confidence . " The fertility of Ireland has never ...
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Página 109 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Página 162 - For the love of God is broader Than the measures of man's mind, And the heart of the Eternal Is most wonderfully kind...
Página 109 - One man draws out the wire; another straights it; a third cuts it; a fourth points it; a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head...
Página 73 - Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring to be angels, men rebel; And who but wishes to invert the laws Of order, sins against the Eternal Cause.
Página 109 - ... the important business of making a pin is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct operations, which in some manufactories are all performed by distinct hands, though in others the same man will sometimes perform two or three of them.
Página 33 - Och! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling! To catch dame Fortune's golden smile, Assiduous wait upon her; And gather gear by ev'ry wile That's justified by honour; Not for to hide it in a hedge, Nor for a train attendant; But for the glorious privilege Of being independent.
Página 73 - Go, wiser thou! and, in thy scale of sense, Weigh thy opinion against Providence; Call imperfection what thou fanciest such, Say, here he gives too little, there too much : Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, If man's unhappy, God's unjust...
Página 23 - Things being investigated, knowledge became complete. Their knowledge being complete, their thoughts were sincere. Their thoughts being sincere, their hearts were then rectified. Their hearts being rectified, their persons were cultivated. Their persons being cultivated, their families were regulated. Their families being regulated, their States were rightly governed. Their States being rightly governed, the whole Empire was made tranquil and happy.
Página 47 - Everything harmonizes with me, which is harmonious to thee, O Universe. Nothing for me is too early nor too late, which is in due time for thee. Everything is fruit to me which thy seasons bring, O Nature: from thee are all things, in thee are all things, to thee all things return.
Página 136 - It is because high or low wages and profit must be paid, in order to bring a particular commodity to market, that its price is high or low. But it is because its price is high or low; a great deal more, or very little more, or no more, than what is sufficient to pay those wages and profit, that it affords a high rent, or a low rent, or no rent at all.