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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... servants who were qualified to supply them with those articles of trade and manufacture which were in common use . Hence in monas- VOL I. 2 teries we find smiths and carpenters , millers , illuminators FREE TRADE AND THE LEAGUE . 21.
... servants who were qualified to supply them with those articles of trade and manufacture which were in common use . Hence in monas- VOL I. 2 teries we find smiths and carpenters , millers , illuminators FREE TRADE AND THE LEAGUE . 21.
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... supply of money from the tolls and other dues of the market . What made this interference be felt as a greater hardship was , that the weather , all the time of the fair , happened to be excessively bad , so that not only the goods were ...
... supply of money from the tolls and other dues of the market . What made this interference be felt as a greater hardship was , that the weather , all the time of the fair , happened to be excessively bad , so that not only the goods were ...
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... supply of the respective wants of each which constitutes the foundation or sustaining element of the commerce , a certain portion of what the consumer pays must fall to the share of the persons by whose agency the commerce is carried on ...
... supply of the respective wants of each which constitutes the foundation or sustaining element of the commerce , a certain portion of what the consumer pays must fall to the share of the persons by whose agency the commerce is carried on ...
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... , the produce of the country being fully sufficient to supply all the wants of its inhabitants . And 3 so , no doubt , it was , and would VOL I FREE TRADE AND THE LEAGUE . 37 verse parties, and that whatever the one country gained ...
... , the produce of the country being fully sufficient to supply all the wants of its inhabitants . And 3 so , no doubt , it was , and would VOL I FREE TRADE AND THE LEAGUE . 37 verse parties, and that whatever the one country gained ...
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... supply , in other words , of raising the prices of foreign goods . But , like most of the other absurd restrictions of the same character , the maintenance of this regulation was soon found to be im- practicable if it had been ...
... supply , in other words , of raising the prices of foreign goods . But , like most of the other absurd restrictions of the same character , the maintenance of this regulation was soon found to be im- practicable if it had been ...
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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.