Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, Volume 1Bell & Bradfute, 1804 |
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... Commerce · • II . Of Refinement in the Arts III . Of Money . IV . Of Interest · · V. Of the Balance of Trade · VI . Of the Jealousy of Trade VII . Of the Balance of Power VIII . Of Taxes • IX . Of Public Credit . • · 269 * 285 299 · 313 ...
... Commerce · • II . Of Refinement in the Arts III . Of Money . IV . Of Interest · · V. Of the Balance of Trade · VI . Of the Jealousy of Trade VII . Of the Balance of Power VIII . Of Taxes • IX . Of Public Credit . • · 269 * 285 299 · 313 ...
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... commerce . Having therefore intended , in this essay , to make a full comparison of civil liberty and absolute government , and to show the great advantages of the former above the latter ; I began to entertain a suspicion that no man ...
... commerce . Having therefore intended , in this essay , to make a full comparison of civil liberty and absolute government , and to show the great advantages of the former above the latter ; I began to entertain a suspicion that no man ...
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... commerce can never flourish but in a free government ; and this opinion seems to be founded on a longer and larger ex- perience than the foregoing , with regard to the arts and sciences . If we trace commerce in its progress through ...
... commerce can never flourish but in a free government ; and this opinion seems to be founded on a longer and larger ex- perience than the foregoing , with regard to the arts and sciences . If we trace commerce in its progress through ...
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... commerce of FRANCE , seems to prove that this maxim is no more certain and infallible than the foregoing , and that the subjects of an absolute prince may become our rivals in commerce , as well as in learning . Durst I deliver my ...
... commerce of FRANCE , seems to prove that this maxim is no more certain and infallible than the foregoing , and that the subjects of an absolute prince may become our rivals in commerce , as well as in learning . Durst I deliver my ...
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... commerce , in order to purchase some of those employments , to which privileges and honours are annexed . Since I am upon this head , of the alterations which time has produced , or may produce in politics , I must observe , that all ...
... commerce , in order to purchase some of those employments , to which privileges and honours are annexed . Since I am upon this head , of the alterations which time has produced , or may produce in politics , I must observe , that all ...
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Page 545 - I am apt to suspect the negroes, and in general all the other species of men (for there are four or five different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites. There never was a civilized nation of any other complexion than white, nor even any individual eminent either in action or speculation. No ingenious manufactures amongst them, no arts, no sciences...
Page 124 - To balance a large state or society (says he) whether monarchical or republican, on general laws, is a work of so great difficulty that no human genius, however comprehensive, is able by the mere dint of reason and reflection, to effect it The judgments of many must unite in the work: experience must guide their labor: time must bring it to perfection: and the feeling of inconveniences must correct the mistakes which they inevitably fall into, in their first trials and experiments.
Page 27 - NOTHING appears more surprising to those who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few ; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers.
Page 343 - In opposition to this narrow and malignant opinion, I will venture to assert, that the increase of riches and commerce in any one nation, instead of hurting, commonly promotes the riches and commerce of all its neighbours...
Page 302 - The workman has not the same employment from the manufacturer and merchant; though he pays the same price for every thing in the market. The farmer cannot dispose of his corn and cattle, though he must pay the same rent to his landlord. The poverty and beggary, and sloth, which must ensue, are easily foreseen.
Page 545 - Such a uniform and constant difference could not happen, in so many countries and ages, if nature had not made an original distinction between these breeds of men. Not to mention our colonies, there are Negroe slaves dispersed all over Europe, of whom none ever discovered any symptoms of ingenuity; tho' low people, without education, will start up amongst us, and distinguish themselves in every profession.
Page 266 - ... it is the chief business of philosophers to regard the general course of things. I may add, that it is also the chief business of politicians; especially in the domestic government of the state, where the public good, which is, or ought to be their object, depends on the concurrence of a multitude of causes; not, as in foreign politics, on accidents and chances, and the caprices of a few persons.
Page 50 - And, as such a violent government cannot long subsist, we shall at last, after many convulsions and civil wars, find repose in absolute monarchy, which it would have been happier for us to have established peaceably from the beginning. Absolute monarchy, therefore, is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the British constitution.
Page 469 - Were you to preach, in most parts of the world, that political connections are founded altogether on voluntary consent or a mutual promise, the magistrate would soon imprison you as seditious for loosening the ties of obedience, if your friends did not before shut you up as delirious for advancing such absurdities.
Page 326 - Suppose four-fifths of all the money in GREAT BRITAIN to be annihilated in one night, and the nation reduced to the same condition, with regard to specie, as in the reigns of the HARRYS and EDWARDS, what would be the consequence? Must not the price of all labour and commodities sink in proportion, and everything be sold as cheap as they were in those ages?