Principles of Social and Political Economy, Or, The Laws of the Creation and Diffusion of Wealth Investigated and Explained: Preceded by an Examination of the Extant and Prevailing Principles and System of Political Economy, Volume 1Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858 - 645 pages |
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... duty connected both with the acquisition and expenditure of property , are explained , yet no attempt is made to have the great social course en- forced by means of positive or statutory laws of the realm . A correct definition being ...
... duty connected both with the acquisition and expenditure of property , are explained , yet no attempt is made to have the great social course en- forced by means of positive or statutory laws of the realm . A correct definition being ...
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... duty of governing shall rest , will be reduced to the unhappy condition of feeling and knowing that they cannot perform , with fidelity and success , the duties of that high office which they are called upon to hold . One great and most ...
... duty of governing shall rest , will be reduced to the unhappy condition of feeling and knowing that they cannot perform , with fidelity and success , the duties of that high office which they are called upon to hold . One great and most ...
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... duty not to quit it until I had unravelled all its intricacies , and shown clearly how incapable of recon- ciliation , and of being formed into unity of argument , all the matter is which has been forced into it , only , as it will be ...
... duty not to quit it until I had unravelled all its intricacies , and shown clearly how incapable of recon- ciliation , and of being formed into unity of argument , all the matter is which has been forced into it , only , as it will be ...
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... duty it has been , by means of a thorough examination , either to have substantiated and conceded , or else to have refuted and rejected it . Up to the present moment the whole evidence and reasoning that have been connected with the ...
... duty it has been , by means of a thorough examination , either to have substantiated and conceded , or else to have refuted and rejected it . Up to the present moment the whole evidence and reasoning that have been connected with the ...
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... duty of those who , in the pursuit of truth , arrive at conclusions which stagger their judgments , not to content themselves by pleading the correct issue out of a previous proposition , but to try the argument back , until they have ...
... duty of those who , in the pursuit of truth , arrive at conclusions which stagger their judgments , not to content themselves by pleading the correct issue out of a previous proposition , but to try the argument back , until they have ...
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Page 505 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Page 401 - And therefore is the glorious planet, Sol, In noble eminence enthron'd and spher'd Amidst the other; whose med'cinable eye Corrects the ill aspects of planets evil, And posts, like the commandment of a king, Sans...
Page 342 - The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his. Whatsoever then he removes out of the state that nature hath provided and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property.
Page 403 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Page 142 - The value of any commodity, therefore, to the person who possesses it, and who means not to use or consume it himself, but to exchange it for other commodities, is equal to the quantity of labour which it enables him to purchase or command. Labour, therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities.
Page 78 - Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society, which he has in view. But the study of his own advantage naturally, or rather necessarily leads him to prefer that employment which is most advantageous to the society.