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β€œThe” Life of Major-General Sir Thomas Munro, Bart. and K.C.B., Late ... - Page 288
by George Robert Gleig - 1830
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The Abolition of Poverty

Jacob Harry Hollander - Labor - 1914 - 136 pages
...a bare level of subsistence but a progressive standard of comfort determined wages, and as to this: "The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all...classes should have a taste for comforts and enjoyments, and that they should be stimulated by all legal means in their exertions to procure them."63 In much...
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THE ABOLITION POVERTY

JACOB H. HOLLANDER, Ph.D. - 1914 - 136 pages
...a bare level of subsistence but a progressive standard of comfort determined wages, and as to this: "The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all...classes should have a taste for comforts and enjoyments, and that they should be stimulated by all legal means in their exertions to procure them."63 In much...
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The American Journal of Sociology, Volume 20

Albion W. Small, Ellsworth Faris, Ernest Watson Burgess - Social sciences - 1915 - 900 pages
...purposes were concerned. One of these occurs in the discussion of the Malthusian theory of population. The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all...classes should have a taste for comforts and enjoyments, and that they should be stimulated by all legal means in their exertions to procure them. There cannot...
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Principles of Economics: An Introductory Volume

Alfred Marshall - Economics - 1916 - 916 pages
...permanent, and their deteriorated condition will become a new minimum 1 It may be well to quote his words. "The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all countries the labouring classes should hare n taste for comforts and enjoyments, and that they should be stimulated by all legal means in...
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Dictionary of Political Economy, Volume 1

Sir Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave, Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave - Economics - 1901 - 824 pages
...different countries. It essentially depends on the habits and customs of the people." And again he remarks, "The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all...classes should have a taste for comforts and enjoyments, and that they should be stimulated by all legal means in their exertions to procure them." The effects...
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The American Journal of Sociology, Volume 22

Albion W. Small, Ellsworth Faris, Ernest Watson Burgess - Social sciences - 1917 - 904 pages
...part of workingmen. Ricardo has somewhere 1 Ellwood, op. cit., p. 126. ' Ibid., pp. 148 f. put it that "the friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all countries the laboring classes should have a taste for comforts and enjoyments, and that they should be stimulated...
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The Economics of Progress

John Mackinnon Robertson - Economics - 1918 - 320 pages
...the same, could increase only by curtailing profits β€” meaning the rate of profit ; and (2) that " the friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all...classes should have a taste for comforts and enjoyments, and that they should be stimulated by all legal means in their exertions to procure them. There cannot...
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Papers and Essays for Churchmen

David McConnell Steele - Christian sociology - 1919 - 254 pages
...sufficient effort to lift themselves out of it. The well known opinion of Ricardo still holds good : " The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all countries the laboring classes should have engendered in them in some way a taste for comfort and enjoyment that...
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Men and Thought in Modern History

Ernest Scott - Philosophy - 1920 - 370 pages
...interests, and, what is still more to the point, which are perpetually in motion. β€” Arnold Toynbee. The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all...classes should have a taste for comforts and enjoyments, and that they should be stimulated by all legal means in their exertions to procure them. There cannot...
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A Text-book of Economics

Milton Briggs - Economics - 1921 - 552 pages
...English cottage would have been thought luxuries at an earlier period of our history.' Again, he says, " The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all...classes should have a taste for comforts and enjoyments, and that they should be stimulated by all legal means in their exertions to procure them. There cannot...
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