Manual of Social Science: Being a Condensation of the "Principles of Social Science" of H.C. Carey, LL.D.

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H. C. Baird, 1872 - Economics - 548 pages
 

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Page 28 - The natural price of labor is that price which is necessary to enable the laborers, one with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.
Page 419 - Taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite, and the drug that restores him to health ; on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal ; on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice; on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribands of the bride.
Page 419 - Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel ; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble ; and he is then gathered to his fathers, — to be taxed no more.
Page 528 - They were unenlightened by science, and unacquainted with that religion, which enjoins men to do unto others as they would that others should do unto them.
Page 410 - I know nothing that could, in this view, be said better, than " do unto others as ye would that others should do unto you...
Page 5 - Pocket-Book for Railroad and Civil Engineers: Containing New, Exact and Concise Methods for Laying out Railroad Curves, Switches, Frog Angles and Crossings ; the Staking out of work ; Levelling ; the Calculation of Cuttings ; Embankments ; Earthwork, etc. By OLIVER BYRNE.

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