Principles of political economy, deduced from the natural laws of social welfare, and applied to the present state of BritainLongman, 1833 - 457 pages |
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Page ix
... fact begun to pervade society , that the well- being of its component members is the object most deserving of its attention , and should be its first and most prominent study ; that the physical and mental happiness of man may be most ...
... fact begun to pervade society , that the well- being of its component members is the object most deserving of its attention , and should be its first and most prominent study ; that the physical and mental happiness of man may be most ...
Page x
... excited dissatisfaction ; it is no paroxysm of feverish irritation or chronic restlessness : it is the natural consequence of the progress which the many have made in the know- PREFACE . xi ledge of facts , and in the PREFACE .
... excited dissatisfaction ; it is no paroxysm of feverish irritation or chronic restlessness : it is the natural consequence of the progress which the many have made in the know- PREFACE . xi ledge of facts , and in the PREFACE .
Page xi
George Poulett Scrope. PREFACE . xi ledge of facts , and in the power of reasoning from them . It is not symptomatic of disease , but rather of that period in the growth of the human intellect when it passes from adolescence to maturity ...
George Poulett Scrope. PREFACE . xi ledge of facts , and in the power of reasoning from them . It is not symptomatic of disease , but rather of that period in the growth of the human intellect when it passes from adolescence to maturity ...
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... fact ? -A few vague general notions caught up during a hasty perusal of Paley or Blackstone ; a host of prejudices carefully im planted at school and college by teachers inte- rested in maintaining the abuses of existing insti- tutions ...
... fact ? -A few vague general notions caught up during a hasty perusal of Paley or Blackstone ; a host of prejudices carefully im planted at school and college by teachers inte- rested in maintaining the abuses of existing insti- tutions ...
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... facts , have arrived at conclusions so opposed to the common sense and experience of practical_men , that the latter ... fact , they only obscured and mystified . So prevalent are these impressions , that it has at times been doubted ...
... facts , have arrived at conclusions so opposed to the common sense and experience of practical_men , that the latter ... fact , they only obscured and mystified . So prevalent are these impressions , that it has at times been doubted ...
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accumulated Adam Smith advantages afford agriculture amount arts benefit capital circulating circumstances comforts commerce commodities condition consequently consumed continually corn CORN-LAWS cost cultivation demand division of labour duce duction duties effect employed employment enjoyment equally evils exchange exclusive exertions existence expense extent favourable fertility foreign greater happiness human improvement increase individual industry injury interest invested Ireland labouring class land landlord less likewise limited machinery manufactures ment MIXED MATHEMATICS mode monopoly moral natural justice natural laws natural right necessary numbers object obtain occupation owner parishes parties perhaps persons Political Economy poor poor-law poor-rate population portion possession present principle procure production profit proportion proportionate purchase quantity raw produce rent skill society soil sumers supply surplus surplus labour taxation things tion tithe tivation trade value of money villeins wages wealth