EconomySimpkin, Marshal, 1882 - 208 páginas |
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... persons in times of scarcity to sell beyond the market price , but nobody ever heard of a claim for compensation ' on the part of those persons whose private interests were thereby injured . And that was a very much stronger case than ...
... persons in times of scarcity to sell beyond the market price , but nobody ever heard of a claim for compensation ' on the part of those persons whose private interests were thereby injured . And that was a very much stronger case than ...
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... person is a public benefactor ; every thriftless person a public enemy . " Waste not , want not , " is a law of nature . Let no man say that he cannot economize ; every man can if you once get the habit into him . Franklin said , Time ...
... person is a public benefactor ; every thriftless person a public enemy . " Waste not , want not , " is a law of nature . Let no man say that he cannot economize ; every man can if you once get the habit into him . Franklin said , Time ...
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... persons took trouble in vain , and used fruitless endeavours , he who acquired wealth without enjoying it , and he ... persons were cultivated . Their persons being cultivated , their families were regulated . Their families being ...
... persons took trouble in vain , and used fruitless endeavours , he who acquired wealth without enjoying it , and he ... persons were cultivated . Their persons being cultivated , their families were regulated . Their families being ...
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... persons in easy circumstances , or at least above want , is increasing much faster than population . Three indisputable proofs may be quoted : - I. The number of paupers has declined 19 per cent . , and the ratio to population is now ...
... persons in easy circumstances , or at least above want , is increasing much faster than population . Three indisputable proofs may be quoted : - I. The number of paupers has declined 19 per cent . , and the ratio to population is now ...
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... persons , and provide all the little but needful household expenses , however humble that home may be . I assume it to be impossible for the bread- winner , the man , to be fed at a less cost than 10s . per week . The Sunday dinner ...
... persons , and provide all the little but needful household expenses , however humble that home may be . I assume it to be impossible for the bread- winner , the man , to be fed at a less cost than 10s . per week . The Sunday dinner ...
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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.