Principles of Political Economy: Deduced from the Natural Laws of Social Welfare and Applied to the Present State of Britain |
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... expense of the others , must be equally prejudicial to all . In fact , the business of each branch is to supply the wants of the others , so that any falling off in the means of one must cause a proportionate defalcation in the ...
... expense of the others , must be equally prejudicial to all . In fact , the business of each branch is to supply the wants of the others , so that any falling off in the means of one must cause a proportionate defalcation in the ...
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... expense . * But it seems to be forgotten by these economists that manufacturing industry only works up the raw produce of agriculture - that cotton , wool , and flax are as much the produce of the soil as corn , cheese , and mutton ...
... expense . * But it seems to be forgotten by these economists that manufacturing industry only works up the raw produce of agriculture - that cotton , wool , and flax are as much the produce of the soil as corn , cheese , and mutton ...
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... expense in glass - houses and fuel , you may succeed in rearing some weak and puny specimen of a tropical fruit in Norway or Iceland ; -and in the same manner by prohibitions and bounties you may raise some faint imitation of a foreign ...
... expense in glass - houses and fuel , you may succeed in rearing some weak and puny specimen of a tropical fruit in Norway or Iceland ; -and in the same manner by prohibitions and bounties you may raise some faint imitation of a foreign ...
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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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