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So far from complete inaction being perfect enjoyment , there are few sufferings greater than that which the total absence of occupation generally induces . Count Caylus , the celebrated French antiquary , spent much time in engraving ...
So far from complete inaction being perfect enjoyment , there are few sufferings greater than that which the total absence of occupation generally induces . Count Caylus , the celebrated French antiquary , spent much time in engraving ...
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Attempts have likewise been made of late years to substitute a better form of land - occupation than serfship under any modifications can ever be ; and , by affording the peasant a hope of improving his condition by his own exertions ...
Attempts have likewise been made of late years to substitute a better form of land - occupation than serfship under any modifications can ever be ; and , by affording the peasant a hope of improving his condition by his own exertions ...
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system of occupation must afford scope for the development of those principles of industry and economy which are implanted in the bosoms of all men , and want but the slightest encouragement to expand and perform their valuable ...
system of occupation must afford scope for the development of those principles of industry and economy which are implanted in the bosoms of all men , and want but the slightest encouragement to expand and perform their valuable ...
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Contents
PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE On the Coincidence of | 1 |
Duty of a Government the securing | 28 |
PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY DEDUCED | 40 |
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| Title | Principles of Political Economy: Deduced from the Natural Laws of Social Welfare and Applied to the Present State of Britain Reprints of economic classics |
| Author | George Poulett Scrope |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | A. M. Kelley, 1969 |
| ISBN | 067800563X, 9780678005637 |
| Length | 457 pages |
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