 | John Locke - Liberty - 1905 - 198 pages
...computation to say 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...to our use, and cast up the several expenses about them—what in them is purely owing to nature, and what to labour—we shall find that in most of them... | |
 | Archaeology - 1923 - 858 pages
...indeed that puts the difference of value on everything. • If we will rightly estimate things äs they come to our use, and cast up the several expenses...what to labour — we shall find that in most of them niiiety-nine hundredths are wholly to be put on the account of labour.»* It may be pointed out lastly... | |
 | Ignaz Emrich - Currency question - 1927 - 120 pages
...computation to say, 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 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... | |
 | John Locke - Liberty - 1967 - 548 pages
...to say, that of the Produfts of the Earth useful to the Life of Man -,fi6 are the effefts of lahour: 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 lahour, we shall find, that... | |
 | Crawford Brough Macpherson - Business & Economics - 1978 - 228 pages
...Computation to say, that of the Products of the Earth useful to the Life of Man 75 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... | |
 | James Tully - Business & Economics - 1982 - 216 pages
...Computation 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... | |
 | Istvan Hont, Michael Ignatieff - Business & Economics - 1983 - 388 pages
...original gift. ' If we rightly estimate things as they come to our use', Locke said, 'and estimate what in them is purely owing to Nature and what to labour, we shall find that in most of them 99/100 are wholly to be put on the account of labour.'"7 Moreover, in modern times, labour was distinctively... | |
 | Institute of Bankers (Great Britain) - Banks and banking - 1881 - 812 pages
...products of the earth useful to the life of man nine-tenths are tho effects of labour ; nay, if wo will rightly estimate things as they come to our use, and cast up the several expen-es about them, — what in them is purely owing to nature aud what to labour — wo shall find... | |
 | Ellen Frankel Paul, Howard Dickman - Political Science - 1989 - 210 pages
...Computation 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...what to labour, we shall find, that in most of them 99/100 are wholly to be put on the account of labour. (IP 40) Locke does not argue in terms of an absolute... | |
 | John Locke - History - 1988 - 482 pages
...Computation I0 to say, that of the Products of the Earth useful to the Life of Man -& 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... | |
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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, nine-tenths are the effects of labour... 
