A Select Collection of Scarce and Valuable Economical TractsJohn Ramsay McCulloch privately printed, 1859 - 569 páginas |
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Act of Parliament advances advantage agriculture Antoninus Pius Belgia bounty capital cheaper coin commerce common consequence considerable considered consumed consumption corn cultivation distillation distillery distress employed encouragement England enterprizes equal Europe evil exchange expence export farmer fishery foreign gold and silver grain Greenland grower hands Holland houses importation increase industry inhabitants interest of money island justices of peace labour land lend less LORD OVERSTONE luxury mankind manufactures maritime maritime law merchants nation nature necessary necessity never object observed Oleron Pandects parish pawn-broker person pledge poor poor laws population pounds present principles produce profit proportion proprietor purchase quantity reason relieve rent revenue Rhodian laws rich Rome scarcity sell shillings ships Spitsbergen Strabo subsistence Suetonius supply suppose things tion tivator trade undertakers vent wages whales whole workhouse
Pasajes populares
Página 112 - I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: there was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
Página 437 - When the Son of Man shall come in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then shall He sit upon the throne of His glory: and before Him shall be gathered all nations; and He shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats; and He shall set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the King say to them on His right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
Página 480 - We^ the people, ought to be made sensible, that it is not in breaking the laws of commerce, which are the laws of nature, and consequently the laws of God, that we are to place our hope of softening the Divine displeasure to remove any calamity under which we suffer, or which hangs over us.
Página 169 - Were the face of the earth, he says, vacant of other plants, it might be gradually sowed and overspread with one kind only, as for instance with fennel; and were it empty of other inhabitants, it might in a few ages be replenished from one nation only, as for instance with Englishmen.
Página 181 - For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn.
Página 460 - The laboring people are only poor, because they are numerous. Numbers in their nature imply poverty. In a fair distribution among a vast multitude, none can have much. That class of dependent pensioners called the rich, is so extremely small, that if all their throats were cut, and a distribution made of all they consume in a year, it would not give a bit of bread and cheese for one night's supper to those who labor, and who in reality feed both the pensioners and themselves.
Página 437 - I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat : I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink : I was a stranger, and ye took me in : naked, and ye clothed me : I was sick, and ye visited me : I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
Página 486 - As to what is said, in a physical and moral view, against the home consumption of spirits, experience has long since taught me very little to respect the declamations on that subject — whether the thunder of the laws, or the thunder of eloquence, «' is hurled on gin
Página 36 - I cannot but note how from hence it appears, that the glory, the strength, the riches, the trade, and all that's valuable in a nation, as to its figure in the world, depends upon the number of its people, be they never so mean or poor...
Página 466 - ... the benign and wise disposer of all things, who obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success.