| David Ricardo - Classical school of economics - 1821 - 560 pages
...means of removing the evil, particularly as its effect would be to elevate all classes of the people. The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all...classes should have a taste for comforts and enjoyments, and that they should be stimulated by all legal means in their exertions to procure them. There cannot... | |
| J. C. Ross - Economics - 1827 - 486 pages
...over-peopled state of society, if such a state could ever, by possibi lity, have place on this earth. The friends of humanity cannot but wish, that in all countries the labourers should be enabled to acquire a proper share of comforts and enjoyments ; and that they should... | |
| Joseph Salway Eisdell - Economics - 1839 - 456 pages
...to which, it is thought, the market rate of wages must usually be proportioned. Mr. Ricardo says, " The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all...classes should have a taste for comforts and enjoyments, and that they should be stimulated by all legal means in their exertions to procure them. There cannot... | |
| John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - Industrial relations - 1852 - 142 pages
...change in this respect between Adam Smith and Ricardo. " The friends of humanity," he says again, " cannot but wish that in all countries the labouring...classes should have a taste for comforts and enjoyments, and that they should be stimulated by all legal means in their exertions to procure them. There cannot... | |
| Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett - Economics - 1876 - 286 pages
...of living, they would use every effort not again to sink below it. Ricardo says on this subject: — "The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all...classes should have a taste for comforts and enjoyments, and that they should be stimulated by all legal means in their exertions to procure them. There cannot... | |
| Earl Thomas Brassey Brassey - Great Britain - 1879 - 466 pages
...the labourer should seek to establish a high standard of living. Mr. Eicardo has most truly said : ' The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all...classes should have a taste for comforts and enjoyments, and that they should be stimulated by all legal means in their exertions to living. 1850 1874 Wheat,... | |
| David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch - Economics - 1886 - 688 pages
...means of removing the evil, particularly as its effect would be to elevate all classes of the people. ' The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all...classes should have a taste for comforts and enjoyments, and that they should be stimulated by all legal means in their exertions to procure them. There cannot... | |
| Alfred Marshall - Economics - 1890 - 808 pages
...life'. i Principles, Ch. v. a It may be well to quote his words. " The friends of humanity cannot bnt wish that in all countries the labouring classes should have a taste for comforts and enjoyments, and that they should be stimulated by all legal means in their exertions to procure them. There cannot... | |
| Economics - 1891 - 874 pages
...means of removing the evil, particularly as its effect would be to elevate all classes of the people. The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all...classes should have a taste for comforts and enjoyments, and that they should be stimulated by all legal means in their exertions to procure them. There cannot... | |
| Langford Lovell Price - Economics - 1891 - 226 pages
...anxious to improve the condition of the wage-earning classes. " The friends of humanity," he writes, " cannot but wish that in all countries the labouring...classes should have a taste for comforts and enjoyments, and that they should be stimulated by all legal means in their exertions to procure them." Nor could... | |
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