The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Հատոր 78A. Constable, 1843 |
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... says this author , the right way of judging of the increase or decrease of the riches of the nation by the trade we drive with foreigners , is to examine whether we receive money from them or send them money ; for if we export more ...
... says this author , the right way of judging of the increase or decrease of the riches of the nation by the trade we drive with foreigners , is to examine whether we receive money from them or send them money ; for if we export more ...
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... says , will be a proportionate diminution of the consumption of cloth in Cuba . England will export only 750,000 bales of cloth instead of 1,500,000 - will receive for them only L.1,125,000 instead of L.2,250,000 , and , still ...
... says , will be a proportionate diminution of the consumption of cloth in Cuba . England will export only 750,000 bales of cloth instead of 1,500,000 - will receive for them only L.1,125,000 instead of L.2,250,000 , and , still ...
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... says he , that labour is applied with equal effect in England and in France ; that , in consequence , the ' metals are distributed in equal proportions throughout the two " ' countries ; and that the commerce carried on 1843 . 27 Free ...
... says he , that labour is applied with equal effect in England and in France ; that , in consequence , the ' metals are distributed in equal proportions throughout the two " ' countries ; and that the commerce carried on 1843 . 27 Free ...
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... say , the gold which his week's labour is worth in the general market of the world - bear to two guineas . If the value of the produce of English labour were to double in the market of the world - or , in other words , if the produce of ...
... say , the gold which his week's labour is worth in the general market of the world - bear to two guineas . If the value of the produce of English labour were to double in the market of the world - or , in other words , if the produce of ...
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... says Adam Smith , and we agree with him , be policy in retaliations of this kind , when there is ' a probability that they will procure the repeal of the high ' duties complained of . The recovery of a great foreign market will ...
... says Adam Smith , and we agree with him , be policy in retaliations of this kind , when there is ' a probability that they will procure the repeal of the high ' duties complained of . The recovery of a great foreign market will ...
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Էջ 384 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object: can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt?
Էջ 199 - The world generally gives its admiration, not to the man who does what nobody else even attempts to do, but to the man who does best what multitudes do well.
Էջ 370 - Thick 8vo, cloth, 6s (original price 12s) Published under the superintendence of the Council of the Royal Society of Literature.
Էջ 251 - Oh! if sometimes thy spotless form descend, To me, thy aid, thou guardian genius, lend! When rage misguides me, or when fear alarms, When pain distresses, or when pleasure charms, In silent whisperings purer thoughts impart, And turn from ill a frail and feeble heart, Lead through the paths thy virtue trod before, Till bliss shall join, nor death can part us more.
Էջ 229 - The mere choice and arrangement of his words would have sufficed to make his essays classical. For never, not even by Dryden, not even by Temple, had the English language been written with such sweetness, grace, and facility.
Էջ 455 - Thebes's streets three thousand years ago, When the Memnonium was in all its glory, And time had not begun to overthrow Those temples, palaces, and piles stupendous Of which the very ruins are tremendous.
Էջ 251 - Or dost thou warn poor mortals left behind, A task well suited to thy gentle mind ? Oh! if sometimes thy spotless form descend, To me thy aid, thou guardian genius, lend! When rage misguides me, or when fear alarms, When pain distresses, or when pleasure charms, In silent whisperings purer thoughts impart, And turn from ill a frail and feeble heart; Lead through the paths thy virtue trod before, Till bliss shall join, nor death can...
Էջ 238 - ... and books on farriery included. In these circumstances, the sale of the Spectator must be considered as indicating a popularity quite as great as that of the most successful works of Sir Walter Scott and Mr. Dickens in our own time.
Էջ 218 - ... fast. Whole fleets had been cast away. Large mansions had been blown down. One prelate had been buried beneath the ruins of his palace. London and Bristol had presented the appearance of cities just sacked. Hundreds of families were still in mourning. The prostrate trunks of large trees, and the ruins of houses, still attested, in all the Southern counties, the fury of the blast. The popularity which the simile of the angel enjoyed among Addison's contemporaries has always seemed to us to be...
Էջ 194 - To Addison himself we are bound by a sentiment as much like affection as any sentiment can be which is inspired by one who has been sleeping a hundred and twenty years in Westminster Abbey.