 | Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - Philosophy - 2003 - 852 pages
...the question in John Locke's language, who in his Second Treatise considers the very same subject, "if we will rightly estimate things as they come to...and cast up the several expenses about them, what [we may ask] in them is purely owing to nature, and what to labor[?]"13 Paine ventures as his answer... | |
 | Philip Cafaro - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 288 pages
...that of the Products of the earth useful to the Life of Man, nine-tenths are the effects of labour: nay, if we will rightly estimate things as they come...labour, we shall find, that in most of them ninety-nine hundredths are wholly to be put on the account of labour.1^ This is hardly a "modest computation" and... | |
 | John Locke - Philosophy - 2004 - 176 pages
...that of the products of the earth useful to the life of man, nine-tenths are the effects of labour. Nay, if we will rightly estimate things as they come...— we shall find that in most of them ninety-nine hundredths are wholly to be put on the account of labour. 41. There cannot be a clearer demonstration... | |
 | Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller, Jeffrey Paul - Law - 2005 - 428 pages
...the Life of Man 9/10 are the effects of labour." Then, without a pause, he corrects himself, saying, "Nay, if we will rightly estimate things as they come...what to labour, we shall find, that in most of them 99/100 are wholly to be put on the account of labour." By the time Locke has once again reviewed his... | |
 | Serge-Christophe Kolm - Political Science - 2004 - 556 pages
...to say, that of the Products of the Earth useful to the Life of Man 9/10 are the effects of labour: nay, if we will rightly estimate things as they come...what to labour, we shall find, that in most of them 99/100 are wholly to be put on the account of labour Labour makes the far greatest part of the value... | |
 | Matthew H. Kramer - Business & Economics - 2004 - 368 pages
...to say, that of the Products of the Earth useful to the Life of Man 9/10 are the effects of labour, nay, if we will rightly estimate things as they come to our use, and cast up the several Expences about them, what in them is purely owing to Nature, and what to labour, we shall find, that... | |
 | David Womersley, Paddy Bullard, Abigail Williams - History - 2005 - 388 pages
...who was one of the earliest supporters of and investors in the Bank of England, was sure that "if we rightly estimate things as they come to our use, and...what to labour, we shall find that in most of them 99/100 are wholly to be put on the account of labour." No wonder he was convinced that for states "the... | |
 | Stuart Banner - History - 2005 - 366 pages
...Indian, should fetch drastically different prices. If one could divide the value of material things into "what in them is purely owing to Nature, and what to labour" Locke reasoned, "we shall find, that in most of them 99/100 are wholly to be put on the account of... | |
 | Philip Cafaro - Philosophy - 2006 - 289 pages
...that of the Products of the earth useful to the Life of Man, nine-tenths are the effects of labour: nay, if we will rightly estimate things as they come...what to labour, we shall find, that in most of them ninety- nine hundredths are wholly to be put on the account of labour.^ This is hardly a "modest computation"... | |
 | Michael J. Sandel - Law - 2007 - 428 pages
...that of the products of the earth useful to the life of man nine-tenths are the effects of labour; nay, if we will rightly estimate things as they come...— we shall find that in most of them ninety-nine hundredths are wholly to be put on the account of labour. 41. There cannot be a clearer demonstration... | |
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I think it will be but a very modest computation to say, that of the products of the earth useful to the life of man... 
