 | John Crawfurd - Austronesian languages - 1820 - 576 pages
...exorbitant impost, he demands not merely that portion of the produce of the earth paid to the proprietor for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil, or that which is a remuneration for the expenditure of capital in its improvement, but also the whole... | |
 | John Crawfurd - Austronesian languages - 1820 - 587 pages
...exorbitant impost, he demands not merely that portion of the produce of the earth paid to the proprietor for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil, or that which is a remuneration for the expenditure of capital in its improvement, but also th€ whole... | |
 | American literature - 1827 - 654 pages
...stated by Mr. Ricardo to be "that portion of the produce of the earth which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil," according to the progress of population, it would seem necessarily to follow, that every addition to... | |
 | George Robert Gleig - India - 1830 - 474 pages
...fall of HKNT. P. 4& " Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soiL" P. 50. "No one would pay (rent) for the use of land where there was an abundant quantity not yet appropriated.... | |
 | English literature - 1831 - 632 pages
...oMii. ' Rent,' tlu-N say, ' is that portion of the produce of the earth which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil.' -f- This description entirely ninil» what in reality constitutes by far the greater part of all rent,... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - Economics - 1837 - 1158 pages
...land for the use of its original and indestructible powers."* Here it is distinctly stated that it is for the use of the " original and indestructible powers of the soil," that rent is paid. Fertility alone is the cause of exchangeable value, and there is no admixture of... | |
 | Adam Smith, Dugald Stewart - Economics - 1843 - 518 pages
...fall is regulated. ' Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth, ' which is paid to the landlord for the use of the ' original and indestructible powers of the soil. It ' is often, however, confounded with the interest and ' profit of capita], and, in popular language,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Economics - 1844 - 286 pages
..." Rent," says Ricardo, " is that portion of the produce of the earth which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil." Can this definition be sustained ? Certainly not. The word "indestructible" is liable to challenge... | |
 | Richard Whately - 1850 - 408 pages
...(Principles, $c.) 3d Ed. 1. Rent. That portion of the produce of the earth which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil. — p. 53. 2. Wages. The laborer's proportion of the produce. — Chap. v. 3. Profit. The capitalist's... | |
 | Richard Whately - Logic - 1852 - 500 pages
...(Principles, <Jc.) 3rd Ed. 1. Rent. That portion of the produce of the earth which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil. — p. 53. 2. Wages. The laborer's proportion of the produce.— Chap. v. 3. Profit. The capitalist's... | |
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of its revenue. I conclude this section then with affirming, as I think I may be fully warranted to do, that rent is the price paid, not merely " for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil," but for the use of the land as it is,... 
