| 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
...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 ninety- nine hundredths are wholly to be put on the account of labour.^ This is hardly a "modest computation"... | |
| Scott J. Hammond, Kevin R. Hardwick, Howard Leslie Lubert - History - 2007 - 1236 pages
...computation to say, that of the products of the earth useful to the life of man, nine tenths are the effects er to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different Sta expences about them, what in them is purely owing to nature, and what to labour, we shall find, that... | |
| Derek Hughes - Literary Collections - 2007 - 371 pages
...Computation 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... | |
| Stephen McCarthy, David Kehl - Economics - 2008 - 294 pages
...computation . . . 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 ... what in them is purely owing to Nature, and what to labour, we shall find, that in most of them... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1824 - 996 pages
...useful to the life of man, nine-tenths are the effects of labour ; nay, if we will rightly consider 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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