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... labor chiefly devolved ; but these were for the most part gentlemen who differ with me in politics ; and a constant communication being maintained between those who took an active part in the inquiry and those who attended but seldom ...
... labor chiefly devolved ; but these were for the most part gentlemen who differ with me in politics ; and a constant communication being maintained between those who took an active part in the inquiry and those who attended but seldom ...
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... labor , of which the habits of my life and my zeal for the cause , made it very clear that I should cheerfully take advantage ; I imagined that the most implacable species of malice - the spite of peculators trembling for their unjust ...
... labor , of which the habits of my life and my zeal for the cause , made it very clear that I should cheerfully take advantage ; I imagined that the most implacable species of malice - the spite of peculators trembling for their unjust ...
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... labor under a thousand disadvantages , which did not necessarily belong to our situation . The contest in South America has already lasted seven years , with a variety of success ; but its general progress has been retarded in the same ...
... labor under a thousand disadvantages , which did not necessarily belong to our situation . The contest in South America has already lasted seven years , with a variety of success ; but its general progress has been retarded in the same ...
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... labor , labor to comfort , the knowledge of comfort to industry , and to all those virtues by which the multitude add to the strength and prosperity of a country ; and neglecting that re- spectable poverty which shrinks from public view ...
... labor , labor to comfort , the knowledge of comfort to industry , and to all those virtues by which the multitude add to the strength and prosperity of a country ; and neglecting that re- spectable poverty which shrinks from public view ...
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... labor , and to set the idle to work , and also to set to work the children of all those parents who were not thought able to keep and maintain them , and to apprentice them out . 1 The words , " set the idle to work , " have been ...
... labor , and to set the idle to work , and also to set to work the children of all those parents who were not thought able to keep and maintain them , and to apprentice them out . 1 The words , " set the idle to work , " have been ...
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Page 296 - Jacob selah lift up your heads O ye gates and be ye lifted up ye everlasting doors and the King of glory shall come in...
Page 155 - It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense, either by sumptuary laws or by prohibiting the importation of foreign luxuries. They are themselves always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society.
Page 296 - LORD'S, and the ful1 ness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. 2 For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods. 3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD ? or who shall stand in his holy place ? 4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his эо soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
Page 325 - CAMDEN, most reverend head, to whom I owe All that I am in arts, all that I know...
Page 83 - Small islands not capable of protecting themselves are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing a Continent to be perpetually governed by an island. In no instance hath nature made the satellite larger than its primary planet...
Page 521 - Taking the whole earth, instead of this island, emigration would of course be excluded; and, supposing the present population equal to a thousand millions, the human species would increase as the numbers, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, and subsistence as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. In two centuries the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 to 9; in three centuries as 4096 to 13, and in two thousand years the difference would be almost incalculable.
Page 522 - The positive checks to population are extremely various, and include every cause, whether arising from vice or misery, which in any degree contributes to shorten the natural duration of human life. Under this head, therefore, may be enumerated all unwholesome occupations, severe labour and exposure to the seasons, extreme poverty, bad nursing of children, great towns, excesses of all kinds, the whole train of common diseases and epidemics, wars, plague, and famine.
Page 540 - ... of the loom contemptible in the comparison. — I could, at leisure, as they walked together, admire their elegant limbs, their velvet shoulders, and their silken wings ; their backs vying with the empyrean in its blue ; and their eyes, each formed of a thousand others, out-glittering the little planes on a brilliant ; above description, and too great almost for admiration.
Page 309 - And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence; neither was any deceit in his mouth.
Page 326 - What name, what skill, what faith hast thou in things! What sight in searching the most antique springs!