Principles of Political Economy: Deduced from the Natural Laws of Social Welfare and Applied to the Present State of Britain |
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... gives value in exchange to labour ? Only that no one will , under a free system , give his labour for nothing , and consequently those who require the labour of others must pay for it . But the same cause gives value to time . No one ...
... gives value in exchange to labour ? Only that no one will , under a free system , give his labour for nothing , and consequently those who require the labour of others must pay for it . But the same cause gives value to time . No one ...
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... give to these same cottiers a permanent interest in the soil , -and their habits of idleness and carelessness will give place to activity , ingenuity , frugality , and steady industry . Whenever the Irish cottier has been permitted to ...
... give to these same cottiers a permanent interest in the soil , -and their habits of idleness and carelessness will give place to activity , ingenuity , frugality , and steady industry . Whenever the Irish cottier has been permitted to ...
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... give us food , ) can be of no importance whatever to the food - consuming public , as a whole , so that they procure it at the cheapest possible rate . All their interest lies in procuring the greatest possible quantity of it at the ...
... give us food , ) can be of no importance whatever to the food - consuming public , as a whole , so that they procure it at the cheapest possible rate . All their interest lies in procuring the greatest possible quantity of it at the ...
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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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