Conversations on Political Economy: In which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly ExplainedLongman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1839 - 416 sider |
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Side 16
... This is a very pleasing outline of the history of the rise and progress of civilisation ; but I should like to see it a little more filled up . MRS . B. The subject you will find hereafter sufficiently 16 INTRODUCTION .
... This is a very pleasing outline of the history of the rise and progress of civilisation ; but I should like to see it a little more filled up . MRS . B. The subject you will find hereafter sufficiently 16 INTRODUCTION .
Side 17
... civilisation . We see some countries , like America , increase rapidly in wealth and prosperity , whilst others , like Egypt and Syria , are impoverished , depopulated , and falling to decay when the causes which produce these various ...
... civilisation . We see some countries , like America , increase rapidly in wealth and prosperity , whilst others , like Egypt and Syria , are impoverished , depopulated , and falling to decay when the causes which produce these various ...
Side 18
... civilisation in which we now find it , the errors of governments cannot have been very prejudicial . MRS . B. The natural causes which tend to develop the wealth and prosperity of nations are more powerful than the faults of ...
... civilisation in which we now find it , the errors of governments cannot have been very prejudicial . MRS . B. The natural causes which tend to develop the wealth and prosperity of nations are more powerful than the faults of ...
Side 38
... civilisation . MRS . B. We must not proceed too rapidly ; for the pro- gressive steps in the history of civilisation are ex- tremely slow , and we must learn to view the develope- ment of human intellect and the progress of human ...
... civilisation . MRS . B. We must not proceed too rapidly ; for the pro- gressive steps in the history of civilisation are ex- tremely slow , and we must learn to view the develope- ment of human intellect and the progress of human ...
Side 40
... step towards civilisation ; but no farming establishment whatever could either be created or maintained without the institution of property . nor maintained without the institution of property . Savages have 40 ON PROPERTY .
... step towards civilisation ; but no farming establishment whatever could either be created or maintained without the institution of property . nor maintained without the institution of property . Savages have 40 ON PROPERTY .
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66 CAROLINE accumulation Adam Smith advantage afford agriculture amongst augmentation better bills bills of exchange branch of industry bread capitalist certainly circulating circulating capital civilisation cloth lettered commerce commodities consequence considered consumed corn cost of production cultivation demand for labour depreciation derived diminish distress division of labour Edition effect employed enable England equal exchangeable value expense export farm farmer foreign gold and silver improvement income increase inferior soils interest J. C. LOUDON labouring classes landed property landlord laws less luxury machinery maintenance manufactures means ment merchants natural value necessary observed obtain plenty political economy poor population Portugal possession procure proportion proprietor purchase quantity raise the price rate of profit rate of wages raw produce render rent rich rise Russia savage scarce scarcity sell shillings Spain specie subsistence supply suppose surplus things tion tivation trade true value of money vols wealth whilst workmen
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Side 63 - One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head ; to make the head requires two or three distinct operations ; to put it on is a peculiar business, to whiten the pins is another ; it is even a trade by itself to put them into the paper ; and the important business of making a pin is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct operations, which, in some manufactories, are all performed by distinct...
Side 63 - Those ten persons, therefore, could make among them upwards of forty-eight thousand pins in a day. Each person, therefore, making a tenth part of forty-eight thousand pins, might be considered as making four thousand eight hundred pins in a day. But if they had all wrought separately and independently...
Side 62 - But in the way in which this business is now carried on, not only the whole work is a peculiar trade, but it is divided into a number of branches, of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades.
Side 142 - And while he sinks without one arm to save, The country blooms — a garden and a grave ! Where then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride? If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd, He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And e'en the bare-worn common is denied.
Side 392 - The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied; Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds; The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth Has robb'd the neighbouring fields of half their growth; His seat, where solitary sports are seen, Indignant spurns the cottage from the green...
Side 62 - ... the accommodation of an European prince does not always so much exceed that of an industrious and frugal peasant, as the accommodation of the latter exceeds that of many an African king, the absolute master of the lives and liberties of ten thousand naked savages.