Manual of Social Science: Being a Condensation of the "Principles of Social Science" of H.C. Carey |
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... cent . more in quantity , with great improve- ment in the quality of the grain ; and yet the surface cultivated had scarcely at all increased . Within this period the potato culture has been introduced , and green crops now furnish ...
... cent . more in quantity , with great improve- ment in the quality of the grain ; and yet the surface cultivated had scarcely at all increased . Within this period the potato culture has been introduced , and green crops now furnish ...
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... cent Creator , it relieved the governing classes from all responsibility for the wretchedness by which they were sur- rounded , and was therefore at once adopted . Since then it has been the doctrine of a large portion of the schools of ...
... cent Creator , it relieved the governing classes from all responsibility for the wretchedness by which they were sur- rounded , and was therefore at once adopted . Since then it has been the doctrine of a large portion of the schools of ...
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... cent country , watered by numerous rivers , in which cotton and indigo grow spontaneously , and which could supply the world with sugar ; but there he sees no sign of population . The land is uncleared , for those who should undertake ...
... cent country , watered by numerous rivers , in which cotton and indigo grow spontaneously , and which could supply the world with sugar ; but there he sees no sign of population . The land is uncleared , for those who should undertake ...
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... cent . per month ; and all dealt in slaves , whom they treated in a manner that was worthy only of barbarians . Verres , in Sicily , Brutus lent money § 7. Venetian history presents to view a perpetual series of wars for trade ...
... cent . per month ; and all dealt in slaves , whom they treated in a manner that was worthy only of barbarians . Verres , in Sicily , Brutus lent money § 7. Venetian history presents to view a perpetual series of wars for trade ...
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... cent . The habit of association growing rapidly , the mercantile marine , at the close of the century , amounted to a thousand vessels . The woollen and silk fabrics of Toledo employed a thousand workmen ; Segovia manufactured fine ...
... cent . The habit of association growing rapidly , the mercantile marine , at the close of the century , amounted to a thousand vessels . The woollen and silk fabrics of Toledo employed a thousand workmen ; Segovia manufactured fine ...
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Page 28 - The natural price of labor is that price which is necessary to enable the laborers, one with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.
Page 528 - They were unenlightened by science, and unacquainted with that religion, which enjoins men to do unto others as they would that others should do unto them.
Page 513 - But it cannot be expected that individuals should, at their own risk, or rather to their certain loss, introduce a new manufacture, and bear the...