Principles of Political Economy: Deduced from the Natural Laws of Social Welfare and Applied to the Present State of Britain |
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... less pleasurable than free , it is likewise incomparably less productive . All observation confirms what our instinctive senti- ments will suggest , that to encourage a man to put forth his powers to the utmost in any kind of labour ...
... less pleasurable than free , it is likewise incomparably less productive . All observation confirms what our instinctive senti- ments will suggest , that to encourage a man to put forth his powers to the utmost in any kind of labour ...
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... less than was given for them . All bear the cur- rent interest on money , with a difference deter- mined chiefly by the more or less of risk attached to each , and the more or less of trouble and ex- pense attending their transfer ...
... less than was given for them . All bear the cur- rent interest on money , with a difference deter- mined chiefly by the more or less of risk attached to each , and the more or less of trouble and ex- pense attending their transfer ...
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... less inducement to employ it , or allow it to be employed , in production . He might , by such re- strictions , be induced to prefer keeping it in a state of waste , as a park , chase , or warren , com- paratively unproductive and ...
... less inducement to employ it , or allow it to be employed , in production . He might , by such re- strictions , be induced to prefer keeping it in a state of waste , as a park , chase , or warren , com- paratively unproductive and ...
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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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