 | Jörg Thomas Peters, John Locke - Public welfare - 1997 - 364 pages
...modest Computation to say, 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... | |
 | Eric Katz - Nature - 1997 - 294 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 . . . what in them is purely owing to Nature, and what to labour, we shall find, that in most of them... | |
 | Keekok Lee - Philosophy - 1999 - 310 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... | |
 | Richard Epstein - Law - 2000 - 438 pages
...Computation i0 to say, that of the Products of the Earth useful to the Life of Man -fo are the tfft&s 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, David Wootton - Philosophy - 2003 - 492 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...what to labour, we shall find that in most of them 99/100 are wholly to be put on the account of labour. 41. There cannot be a clearer demonstration of... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Serge-Christophe Kolm - Political Science - 2004 - 556 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 Labour makes the far greatest part of the value... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Matthew H. Kramer - Business & Economics - 2004 - 368 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
