Free Trade and the League: A Biographic History of the Pioneers of Freedom of Opinion, Commercial Enterprise, & Civilisation, in Britain ...James Ainsworth, 1853 |
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... passed near him covered in the skin of the goat and eating a piece of its flesh . " Give me that flesh , " cried Waub , " I am hungry . " " Nay , " replied Wassa , " it is my own , but if you desire to have it , give unto me of those ...
... passed near him covered in the skin of the goat and eating a piece of its flesh . " Give me that flesh , " cried Waub , " I am hungry . " " Nay , " replied Wassa , " it is my own , but if you desire to have it , give unto me of those ...
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... passed away , and mankind were not as they were in the days of Waub and Wassa . There had been war always , and it still continued . Commerce there had been none ; nor had its time come . Yet civilisation had begun to track the forests ...
... passed away , and mankind were not as they were in the days of Waub and Wassa . There had been war always , and it still continued . Commerce there had been none ; nor had its time come . Yet civilisation had begun to track the forests ...
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... passed away . The noble chiefs of the highest degree under the suzerains had willingly esta- blished kingly powers and kingly titles ; for each saw it to be within the scope of his intrigue or the fortune of war to be- come a monarch ...
... passed away . The noble chiefs of the highest degree under the suzerains had willingly esta- blished kingly powers and kingly titles ; for each saw it to be within the scope of his intrigue or the fortune of war to be- come a monarch ...
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... nt of the civilizing principles ce of statesmanship in favour of S to the time when those words were traced on paper , was the be the abolition of all restrictions on into the British islands ; an act passed effect in. en long esta- ...
... nt of the civilizing principles ce of statesmanship in favour of S to the time when those words were traced on paper , was the be the abolition of all restrictions on into the British islands ; an act passed effect in. en long esta- ...
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... passed effect in 1849. The last public decla- Peel's sentiments upon this act , and upon measures passed into law while he was I made to his constituents in the town of general election of 1847 , a year after he prime minister . town of ...
... passed effect in 1849. The last public decla- Peel's sentiments upon this act , and upon measures passed into law while he was I made to his constituents in the town of general election of 1847 , a year after he prime minister . town of ...
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Free Trade and the League: A Biographic History of the Pioneers of ..., Հատոր 1 Alexander Somerville Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1853 |
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Էջ 184 - What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy it of them with some part of the produce of our own industry, employed in a way in which we have some advantage.
Էջ 148 - Many murders have been discovered among them ; and they are not only a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants, (who, if they give not bread, or some kind of provision to perhaps forty such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted by them,) but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighborhood.
Էջ 217 - The importation of slaves into the colonies from the coast of Africa hath long been considered as a trade of great inhumanity, and under its present encouragement, we have too much reason to fear will endanger the very existence of your Majesty's American dominions.
Էջ 184 - It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy.
Էջ 344 - ... parties residing in the dominions of the other, shall have the privilege of remaining and continuing their trade therein, without any manner of interruption, so...
Էջ 199 - On the first settling of a country in which there is an abundance of rich and fertile land, a very small proportion of which is required to be cultivated for the support of the actual population...
Էջ 199 - When, in the progress of society, land of the second degree of fertility is taken into cultivation, rent immediately commences on that of the first quality, and the amount of that rent will depend on the difference in the quality of these two portions of land. When land of the third quality is taken into cultivation, rent immediately commences on the second, and it is regulated as before, by the difference in their productive powers. At the same time, the rent of the first quality will rise...
Էջ 164 - The two extremes are obvious; and it follows that there must be some intermediate point. though the resources of political economy may not be able to ascertain it, where, taking into consideration both the power to produce and the will to consume, the encouragement to the increase of wealth is the greatest.
Էջ 148 - There are at this day in Scotland (besides a great many poor families very meanly provided for by the church boxes, with others who, by living on bad food, fall into various diseases) two hundred thousand people begging from door to door.
Էջ 126 - Nature seems to have taken a particular care to disseminate her blessings among the different regions of the world, with an eye to this mutual intercourse and traffic among mankind, that the natives of the several parts of the globe might have a kind of dependence upon one another, and be united together by their common interest.