 | 1884 - 682 sider
...and state who assented (though not perhaps with equal cynicism) to the dictum of Mandeville,1 that, " in a free nation, where slaves are not allowed of,...surest wealth consists in a multitude of laborious poor ; and to make poverty happy and people easy under the meanest circumstances, it is requisite that great... | |
 | Francis Adams - 1882 - 370 sider
...Mandeville will sound brutal to modern ears, but they truly express the axioms of Government which r Statesmen were not ashamed to avow a century after...poor; for, besides that they are the never-failing I nursery of fleets and armies, without them there could be no I enjoyment, and no product of any country... | |
 | 1890 - 1414 sider
...slaving People. I 120. 1 In a free Nation where Slaves are not allow'd of, the surest Wealth consiete in a Multitude of laborious Poor; for besides that...Enjoyment, and no Product of any Country could be valuable. I 328. — Notwithstanding this great necessity of Coin, it would be easier, where Property was well... | |
 | 1890 - 1382 sider
...working slaving People. I 120. * In a free Nation where Slaves are not allow'd of, the surest Wealth in a Multitude of laborious Poor; for besides that they are the Nursery of Fleets and Armies, without them there could be no Enjoyment, and no Product of any Country... | |
 | Sir James Fitzjames Stephen - 1892 - 448 sider
...see the poor perpetually kept down to the very lowest level, and never allowed to rise above it. ' In a free nation where slaves are not allowed of,...wealth consists in a multitude of laborious poor. To make the society happy, and people easy under the meanest circumstances, it is requisite that great... | |
 | British and Foreign School Society - 1899 - 750 sider
...still more at its close, there were doubtless many to contradict Mandeville's cynical view, viz. : — "In a free nation, where slaves are not allowed of, the surest wealth consists iu я multitude of labouring poor ; for beside* that they are the never-failing nursery of fleets and... | |
 | Noble Asa Richardson - 1909 - 240 sider
...desperate, so too much will make him insolent and lazy. . . . From what has been said, it is manifest, that, in a free nation, where slaves are not allowed of,...multitude of laborious poor; for besides, that they are a never-failing nursery of fleets and armies, without them there could be no enjoyment, and no product... | |
 | Samuel Chester Parker - 1912 - 540 sider
...famous expression of this theory is the following, for which I have not been able to find a date : In a free nation where slaves are not allowed of,...could be no enjoyment, and no product of any country would be valuable. To make the society happy and people easy under the meanest circumstances, it is... | |
 | Ola Castrén, Yrjö Hirn, Rolf Lagerborg, Axel Wallensköld - 1912 - 334 sider
...—(s.280f. L »From what has been said it is manifest, that in a Free Nation where Slaves are not allow'd of, the surest Wealth consists in a Multitude of laborious...neverfailing Nursery of Fleets and Armies, without theni there could be no Enjoyment, and no Product of any Country could be valuable. To make the Society... | |
 | Edgar Wallace Knight - 1916 - 402 sider
...argument advanced early in the nineteenth century against governmental aid to education in England: "In a free nation where slaves are not allowed of,...could be no enjoyment, and no product of any country would be valuable. To make the society happy and people easy under the meanest circumstances, it is... | |
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To make the society happy and people easy under the meanest circumstances, it is requisite that great numbers of them should be ignorant as well as poor. 
