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... institutions , in some shape or other , are indispensable to good government , the question will be simply what limitation or extension of the electoral franchise , and what checks upon its exercise , may be rea- sonably expected to ...
... institutions , in some shape or other , are indispensable to good government , the question will be simply what limitation or extension of the electoral franchise , and what checks upon its exercise , may be rea- sonably expected to ...
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... institutions of society would be endangered by their acknow- ledgment . * But this dread is happily as un- founded as it is unwise . If , indeed , the mass of * Pleased as we are with the possession of property , we seem afraid to look ...
... institutions of society would be endangered by their acknow- ledgment . * But this dread is happily as un- founded as it is unwise . If , indeed , the mass of * Pleased as we are with the possession of property , we seem afraid to look ...
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... institutions by a reference to these principles , and the most open , full , and general discussion upon their accordance or disagreement . The danger in an inquiring age like the present , when institutions have ceased to be respected ...
... institutions by a reference to these principles , and the most open , full , and general discussion upon their accordance or disagreement . The danger in an inquiring age like the present , when institutions have ceased to be respected ...
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... institutions , civil or criminal , which relate to property in any of its shapes , which laws compose , indeed , the great mass of legislation in every state . It is therefore evidently most essential that the members of every ...
... institutions , civil or criminal , which relate to property in any of its shapes , which laws compose , indeed , the great mass of legislation in every state . It is therefore evidently most essential that the members of every ...
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... institution , the sabbath is beyond all praise . But in an economical view , where labour is free and well remunerated , it is clear no law can be wanted to protect the labourer from overworking himself . And , in fact , where wages are ...
... institution , the sabbath is beyond all praise . But in an economical view , where labour is free and well remunerated , it is clear no law can be wanted to protect the labourer from overworking himself . And , in fact , where wages are ...
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Page 262 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 174 - 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.
Page 18 - Though the earth and all inferior creatures be common to all men, yet every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his.
Page 30 - ... from a determinate spot of ground, because his father had done so before him ; or why the occupier of a particular field or of a jewel, when lying on his death-bed, and no longer able to maintain possession, should be entitled to tell the rest of the world which of them should enjoy it after him.
Page 19 - The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his. Whatsoever then he removes out of the state that nature hath provided and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property.
Page 75 - In watchmaking, as Mr. Babbage observes, " it was stated in evidence before a Committee of the House of Commons, that there are a hundred and two distinct branches of this art, to each of which a boy may be put apprentice ; and that he only learns his master's department, and is unable, after his apprenticeship has expired, without subsequent instruction, to work at any other branch. The watch-finisher, whose business...
Page 30 - Pleased as we are with the possession, we seem afraid to look back to the means by which it was acquired, as if fearful of some defect in our title ; or at least we rest satisfied with the decision of the laws in our favour, without examining the reason or authority upon which those laws have been built.
Page 143 - ... any sort of action or operation, whether performed by man, the lower animals, machinery, or natural agents, that tends to bring about a desirable result!
Page 19 - For this labour being the unquestionable property of the labourer, no man but he can have a right to what that is once joined to, at least where there is enough, and as good left in common for others.
Page 146 - The profit obtained by the owner of capital from its productive employment, whether in his own hands or those of another party, to whom it is lent, is to be viewed in the light of a compensation to him for abstaining for a time from the consumption of that portion of his property on his personal gratification...