Principles of Political Economy: Deduced from the Natural Laws of Social Welfare and Applied to the Present State of Britain |
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... comforts of life , both for the present consumption of the labourer and his family , and for a reserve against contingencies . These conditions fulfilled , every further increase of the comforts or luxuries which falls to be divided ...
... comforts of life , both for the present consumption of the labourer and his family , and for a reserve against contingencies . These conditions fulfilled , every further increase of the comforts or luxuries which falls to be divided ...
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... comforts . ' Our own poet confines the real wants of man to ' Meat , fire , and clothes : what more ? clothes , meat , and fire . ' These , or in other words , the means of comfort- able subsistence , compose the competence which admits ...
... comforts . ' Our own poet confines the real wants of man to ' Meat , fire , and clothes : what more ? clothes , meat , and fire . ' These , or in other words , the means of comfort- able subsistence , compose the competence which admits ...
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... comforts and conveniences of life , for every individual member who has not by his own vice , folly , or criminality , forfeited his share . And , indeed , this follows so directly from the mere definition of an advance in civilization ...
... comforts and conveniences of life , for every individual member who has not by his own vice , folly , or criminality , forfeited his share . And , indeed , this follows so directly from the mere definition of an advance in civilization ...
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PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE ON the Coincidence of | 1 |
Primary Natural Rights1 To Personal | 13 |
Duty of a Government the securing | 28 |
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