The Logic of Political Economy, and Other PapersTicknor and Fields, 1872 - 387 pagina's |
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... raised into property , and the things useful to man which are not so multiplied and diffused , but which , being hard to obtain , support the owner in demanding a price for them . Many people fancy that these two ideas never are , nor ...
... raised into property , and the things useful to man which are not so multiplied and diffused , but which , being hard to obtain , support the owner in demanding a price for them . Many people fancy that these two ideas never are , nor ...
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... raise even a verbal quillet against so plain a movement of the under- standing , unless it were by some such cavil as is stated below . " It is in the next step that a difficulty arises , to all appearance insurmountable . It is a ...
... raise even a verbal quillet against so plain a movement of the under- standing , unless it were by some such cavil as is stated below . " It is in the next step that a difficulty arises , to all appearance insurmountable . It is a ...
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... raising any subdivision under that generic idea of ex- change value already stated , is this : - The two elements are , — 1st , Intrinsic utility ; 2d , Difficulty of attainment . But these elements must concur . They are not recipro ...
... raising any subdivision under that generic idea of ex- change value already stated , is this : - The two elements are , — 1st , Intrinsic utility ; 2d , Difficulty of attainment . But these elements must concur . They are not recipro ...
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... raising them . By gravity they fall ; by gravity they rise . So also , again , that same ocean , which to nations populous and developed by civilization offers the main high - road of in- tercourse , was to the same nations , when ...
... raising them . By gravity they fall ; by gravity they rise . So also , again , that same ocean , which to nations populous and developed by civilization offers the main high - road of in- tercourse , was to the same nations , when ...
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... raise any motive for purchasing ; but one sepa- rately it is which rules the price . Let not the reader quarrel beforehand with illustrations by geometrical sym- bols ; the use which will be made of them is not of a kind of a hundred ...
... raise any motive for purchasing ; but one sepa- rately it is which rules the price . Let not the reader quarrel beforehand with illustrations by geometrical sym- bols ; the use which will be made of them is not of a kind of a hundred ...
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Pagina 118 - is that portion of the products of the earth which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil." Can this definition be sustained ? Certainly not. The word " indestructible " is liable to challenge ; and, in order that
Pagina 5 - AND FIELDS, according to the amplest extent of any power to make such a transfer that I may be found to possess by law or custom in America, I wish this transfer were likely to be of more value. But the veriest trifle, interpreted by the spirit in which I
Pagina 50 - English court. Amongst others, Evelyn saw them, and thus commemorates the spectacle: — " December 17. Early in the morning, I went into St. James's Park to see three Turkish or Asian horses, newly brought over, and now first showed to his Majesty
Pagina 114 - quarters. He would receive these wages to enable him to live just as well, and no better than, before ; for, when corn was at £ 4 per quarter, he would expend for three quarters of corn, at £4 per quarter, . . £ 12 OO And on other things, . . . 1200 When wheat -was at £4, 10s., three quarters of
Pagina 116 - the questionupon it in this shape, — " Whether the appropriation of land, and the consequent creation of rent, will occasion any variation in the relative value of commodities, independently of the quantity of labor necessary to production?" Whether, in short, the proportions between the two labors producing A and B will continue, in spite of rent, to determine the prices of A and
Pagina 319 - 26* the door outside. What presumption is this? exclaimed the chairman, immediately leaping up. However, on opening the door, it appeared that the fury of the summons was dictated by no failure in respect, but by absolute necessity : necessity has no law ; and any more reverential knocking could have had no chance of being audible.
Pagina 112 - other things," by alleging (p. 97) that " in rich countries a laborer, by the sacrifice of a very small quantity only of his food, is able to provide liberally for all his other wants.
Pagina 113 - is peculiar to Ricardo in his theory of wages : — 10* " When wheat was at £ 4 per quarter, suppose the laborer's wages to be £ 24 per annum, or the value of six quarters of wheat, and suppose half his wages to be expended on wheat, and the other half (or £ 12) on other things, he would receive
Pagina 332 - would the Count Fitz-Hum be pleased to take supper? But this question the Count Fitz-Hum referred wholly to the two ladies ; and for this one night he notified his pleasure that no other company should be invited. Precisely at eleven o'clock the party sat down to supper, which was served on the round table in the
Pagina 274 - of Ali; but the Turks, with the utter shamelessness to which they had been brought by daily familiarity with treachery the most barefaced, were openly descanting to Samuel upon the unheardof tortures which must be looked for at the hands of Ali, by a soldier who had given so much trouble to that Pacha