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... trade of provisions is the most dangerous , and it is always worst in the time when men are most disposed to it ; that is , in the time of scarcity . Because there is nothing on which the passions of men are so violent , and their ...
... trade of provisions is the most dangerous , and it is always worst in the time when men are most disposed to it ; that is , in the time of scarcity . Because there is nothing on which the passions of men are so violent , and their ...
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... trade , the labour of man ( what the ancient writers have called the instrumentum vocale ) is that on which he is most to rely for the repayment of his capital . The other two , the semivocale in the ancient classi- fication , that is ...
... trade , the labour of man ( what the ancient writers have called the instrumentum vocale ) is that on which he is most to rely for the repayment of his capital . The other two , the semivocale in the ancient classi- fication , that is ...
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... trade . " If I am right in this notion , then labour must be subject to all the laws and principles of trade , and not to regulations foreign to them , and that may be totally inconsistent with those principles and those laws . When any ...
... trade . " If I am right in this notion , then labour must be subject to all the laws and principles of trade , and not to regulations foreign to them , and that may be totally inconsistent with those principles and those laws . When any ...
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... trades and manufactures ; but on anything that relates to agriculture , they are to be listened to with the same rever- ence which we pay to the dogmas of other ignorant and pre- sumptuous men . If any one were to tell them , that they ...
... trades and manufactures ; but on anything that relates to agriculture , they are to be listened to with the same rever- ence which we pay to the dogmas of other ignorant and pre- sumptuous men . If any one were to tell them , that they ...
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... trade of a farmer is , as I have before explained , one of the most precarious in its ad- vantages , the most liable to losses , and the least profitable of any that is carried on . It requires ten times more labour , of vigilance , of ...
... trade of a farmer is , as I have before explained , one of the most precarious in its ad- vantages , the most liable to losses , and the least profitable of any that is carried on . It requires ten times more labour , of vigilance , of ...
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Page 541 - CHAUCER'S Poetical Works. With Poems formerly attributed to him. With a Memoir, Introduction, Notes, and a Glossary, by R. Bell. Improved edition, with Preliminary Essay by Rev.
Page 121 - Nitor in adversum" is the motto for a man like jne. I possessed not one of the qualities, nor cultivated one of the arts, that recommend men to the favour and protection of the great. I was not made for a minion or a tool As little did I follow the trade of winning the hearts, by imposing on the understandings, of the people. At every step of my progress in life, (for in every step was I traversed and opposed,) and at every turnpike I met, I was...
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Page 181 - Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us ; and to the hills, Cover us. For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry ? And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.
Page 545 - SCHILLER'S WORKS continued. II.— History of the Revolt in the Netherlands, the Trials of Counts Egmont and Horn, the Siege of Antwerp, and the Disturbances in France preceding the Reign of Henry IV.
Page 135 - ... of the low fat Bedford level will have nothing to fear from all the pickaxes of all the levellers of France. As long as our sovereign lord the king, and his faithful subjects, the lords and commons of this realm — the triple cord which no man can break...