The Wealth of HouseholdsClarendon Press, 1886 - 368 pagina's |
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Pagina 15 - Va^asaneyi-sawihitaupauishad. los. 6d. Vol. II. The Sacred Laws of the Aryas, as taught in the Schools of Apastamba, Gautama, VSsishMa, and BaudhSyana. Translated by Prof. Georg Biihler. Part I. Apastamba and Gautama. ioj. 6d. Vol. III. The Sacred Books of China. The Texts of Confucianism.
Pagina 97 - Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil.
Pagina 339 - The poor have come out of leading-strings, and cannot any longer be governed or treated like children. To their own qualities must now be commended the care of their destiny.
Pagina 167 - And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
Pagina 338 - ... they should. Labour is unquestionably more productive on the system of large industrial enterprises ; the produce, if not greater absolutely, is greater in proportion \ to the labour employed : the same number of persons can be supported equally well with less toil and greater leisure ; which will be wholly an advantage, as soon as eivilization and improvement have so far advanced, that what is a benefit to the whole shall be a benefit to each individual composing it.
Pagina 5 - A New English Dictionary, on Historical Principles : founded mainly on the materials collected by the Philological Society. Edited by James AH Murray, LL.D., President of the Philological Society ; with the assistance of many Scholars and men of Science.