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... pay a high price for his commodities , so it is to the interest of a nation to be surrounded by other prosperous nations in a condition to purchase of it , at a good price , all that it wishes to sell , and to supply it with an abund ...
... pay a high price for his commodities , so it is to the interest of a nation to be surrounded by other prosperous nations in a condition to purchase of it , at a good price , all that it wishes to sell , and to supply it with an abund ...
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... pay a number of retainers ready to obey him . Thus Warwick , " the king- maker , " is said to have constantly maintained more than three thousand persons . In the present day the wealthy command the obedience of even more men ; but ...
... pay a number of retainers ready to obey him . Thus Warwick , " the king- maker , " is said to have constantly maintained more than three thousand persons . In the present day the wealthy command the obedience of even more men ; but ...
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... pay thousands of pounds for precious stones , which have no other effect than to foster two serious vices - vanity in those who wear them , and envy in those foolish enough to wish to have them . Throw into the sea the alcohol and opium ...
... pay thousands of pounds for precious stones , which have no other effect than to foster two serious vices - vanity in those who wear them , and envy in those foolish enough to wish to have them . Throw into the sea the alcohol and opium ...
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... Pay the industrious and the idle workman the same wages and it will be to the interest of both to do as little as possible . Since activity in labour is thus in proportion to the strength of the motives which result in it , labourers ...
... Pay the industrious and the idle workman the same wages and it will be to the interest of both to do as little as possible . Since activity in labour is thus in proportion to the strength of the motives which result in it , labourers ...
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... payments are in proportion to the diffi- culty of the work , the simpler processes can be intrusted to weaker or less skilful hands , often unhappily to those of women and children , and so are less highly paid . ( 5 ) More frequent ...
... payments are in proportion to the diffi- culty of the work , the simpler processes can be intrusted to weaker or less skilful hands , often unhappily to those of women and children , and so are less highly paid . ( 5 ) More frequent ...
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Page 259 - ... the duty of protecting the society from the violence and invasion of other independent societies; secondly, the duty of protecting, as far as possible, every member of the society from the injustice or oppression of every other member of it...