 The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all countries the labouring classes should have a taste for comforts and enjoyments, and that they should be stimulated by all legal means in their exertions to procure them. There cannot be a better security...  On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation - Pagina 95door David Ricardo - 1821 - 538 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | J. C. Ross - 1827 - 486 pagina’s
...over-peopled state of society, if such a state could ever, by possibi lity, have place on this earth. The friends of humanity cannot but wish, that in all countries the labourers should be enabled to acquire a proper share of comforts and enjoyments ; and that they should... | |
 | George Robert Gleig - 1830 - 472 pagina’s
...disposable capital of 500/.; but until it is augmented, I cannot pay 1000/. to labourers. P. 95. " The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all...classes should have a taste for comforts and enjoyments. There cannot be a better security against a superabundant population." P. 101. " When wages rise, it... | |
 | George Robert Gleig - 1830 - 478 pagina’s
...disposable capital of 500/.; but until it is augmented, I cannot pay 1000/. to labourers. P. 95. " The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all...classes should have a taste for comforts and enjoyments. There cannot be a better security against a superabundant population." P. 101. " When wages rise, it... | |
 | Joseph Salway Eisdell - 1839 - 456 pagina’s
...to which, it is thought, the market rate of wages must usually be proportioned. Mr. Ricardo says, " The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all...better security against a superabundant population." * Mr. M'Culloch observes, " When wages are considerably reduced, the poor are obliged to submit to... | |
 | Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett - 1876 - 286 pagina’s
...of living, they would use every effort not again to sink below it. Ricardo says on this subject: — "The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all...better security against a super-abundant population." Malthus on Population. Malthus, in his celebrated essay on population, shewed that there is a constant... | |
 | Earl Thomas Brassey Brassey - 1879 - 466 pagina’s
...the labourer should seek to establish a high standard of living. Mr. Eicardo has most truly said : ' The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all...stimulated by all legal means in their exertions to living. 1850 1874 Wheat, per bushel of 60 Ibs. Indian Corn, „ 56 Ibs. Pork, per 100 Ibs. . 1«. 2d.... | |
 | 1891 - 874 pagina’s
...because its effects would be, if pushed •very far, to render all classes equally poor. But indoor countries, where there are abundant means of production...better security against a superabundant population. And then, in all editions, the argument thus runs on : — In those countries, where the labouring... | |
 | Langford Lovell Price - 1891 - 226 pagina’s
...anxious to improve the condition of the wage-earning classes. " The friends of humanity," he writes, " cannot but wish that in all countries the labouring...all legal means in their exertions to procure them." Nor could the enthusiasm of Mill for the advancement of society b^ doubted, while Ciirnes in his Slave... | |
 | 1891 - 870 pagina’s
...production in store, from fertile land not yet brought into cultivation, it is the only safe and I'fficaciom means of removing the evil, particularly as its effect...but wish that in all countries the labouring classes siiotdd have a taste for comforts and enjoyments, and that they sliould be stimulated by all Lcijal... | |
 | Alfred Marshall - 1891 - 832 pagina’s
...humanity cannot tot wish that in all countries the labouring classes should hare a taste for comfort* and enjoyments, and that they should be stimulated...them. There cannot be a better security against a rap*iabundant population. In those countries, where the labouring classes have tk* fewest wants, and... | |
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