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" Labour is there so well rewarded, that a numerous family of children, instead of being a burthen, is a source of opulence and prosperity to the parents. The labour of each child, before it can leave their house, is computed to be worth a hundred pounds... "
Principles of Social Economics: Inductively Considered and Practically ... - Page 60
by George Gunton - 1891 - 451 pages
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 1

Adam Smith - Economics - 1789 - 526 pages
...opulence and profperity to the parents. The labour of each child, before it can leave their houfe, is computed to be worth a hundred pounds clear gain to them. A young widow with four or five young children, who, among the middling or inferior ranks of people...
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 1

Adam Smith - Economics - 1809 - 372 pages
...source of opulence and prosperity to the paTents. The labour of each child, before it can leave their house, is computed to be worth a hundred pounds clear gain to them. A young widow with four or five young children, who, among the middling or inferior ranks of people...
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The Works of Adam Smith, LL.D. and F.R.S. of London and Edinburgh:: The ...

Adam Smith - Economics - 1812 - 520 pages
...opulence and profperity to the parents. The labour of each child, before it can leave their houfe, is computed to be worth a hundred pounds clear gain to them. A young widow with four or five young children, who, among the middling or inferior ranks of people...
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The Works of Adam Smith: The nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Adam Smith - Economics - 1812
...opulence and profperity to the parents. The labour of each child, before it can leave their I1oufe, is computed to be worth a hundred pounds clear gain to them. A young widow with four or five young children, who, among the middling or inferior ranfcs of people...
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Scraps. [An anthology, ed.] by H. Jenkins

esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pages
...source of opulence and prosperity to the parents. The labour of each child before it can leave their house is computed to be worth a hundred pounds clear gain to them. CHINA has been long one of the richest, that is, one of the most fertile, best cultivated, most industrious,...
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An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. A careful ...

Adam Smith - 1875 - 808 pages
...source of opulence and prosperity to the parents. The labour of each child, before it can leave their house, is computed to be worth a hundred pounds clear gain to them. A young widow with four or five young children, who, among the middling or inferior ranks of people...
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An analysis of Adam Smiths' Inquiry into the nature and causes of ..., Volume 1

Jeremiah Joyce - 1877 - 260 pages
...of the species. A numerous family is a source of opulence to the parents ; the labour of each child is computed to be worth a hundred pounds clear gain to them. A young widow with four or five children is frequently courted as a sort of fortune. This value of...
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SOCIAL ECONOMICS

GEORGE GUNTON - 1891 - 530 pages
...religious tests for holding government offices were abolished ; that Catholics (i828) and Jews (i845) were admitted to representation in Parliament and...in the country), were two shillings and six pence a day,1 while at the same date in New York, ship carpenters received " six shillings and six pence sterling,...
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The Slavery of Labour: A Scientific Demonstration of the Identity of Free ...

William Bell Robertson - Economics - 1906 - 84 pages
...source of opulence and prosperity to the parents. The labour of each child, before it can leave their house, is computed to be worth a hundred pounds clear gain to them. A young widow with four or five young children, who, among the middling or inferior ranks of people...
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A Social History of the American Family from Colonial Times to the ..., Volume 2

Arthur Wallace Calhoun - Families - 1918 - 400 pages
...Adam Smith's reference to American fecundity is well-known. of each child before it can leave their house, is computed to be worth a hundred pounds clear gain to them. A young widow with four or five young children, who, among the middling or inferior ranks of people...
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