The Pamphleteer, Volumen 13Abraham John Valpy A. J. Valpy., 1818 |
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... labor chiefly devolved ; but these were for the most part gentlemen who differ with me in politics ; and a constant communication being maintained between those who took an active part in the inquiry and those who attended but seldom ...
... labor chiefly devolved ; but these were for the most part gentlemen who differ with me in politics ; and a constant communication being maintained between those who took an active part in the inquiry and those who attended but seldom ...
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... labor , of which the habits of my life and my zeal for the cause , made it very clear that I should cheerfully take advantage ; I imagined that the most implacable species of malice - the spite of peculators trembling for their unjust ...
... labor , of which the habits of my life and my zeal for the cause , made it very clear that I should cheerfully take advantage ; I imagined that the most implacable species of malice - the spite of peculators trembling for their unjust ...
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... labor under a thousand disadvantages , which did not necessarily belong to our situation . The contest in South America has already lasted seven years , with a variety of success ; but its general progress has been retarded in the same ...
... labor under a thousand disadvantages , which did not necessarily belong to our situation . The contest in South America has already lasted seven years , with a variety of success ; but its general progress has been retarded in the same ...
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... labor , labor to comfort , the knowledge of comfort to industry , and to all those virtues by which the multitude add to the strength and prosperity of a country ; and neglecting that re- spectable poverty which shrinks from public view ...
... labor , labor to comfort , the knowledge of comfort to industry , and to all those virtues by which the multitude add to the strength and prosperity of a country ; and neglecting that re- spectable poverty which shrinks from public view ...
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... labor , and to set the idle to work , and also to set to work the children of all those parents who were not thought able to keep and maintain them , and to apprentice them out . The words , " set the idle to work , " have been ...
... labor , and to set the idle to work , and also to set to work the children of all those parents who were not thought able to keep and maintain them , and to apprentice them out . The words , " set the idle to work , " have been ...
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Página 83 - Small islands not capable of protecting themselves are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing a Continent to be perpetually governed by an island. In no instance hath nature made the satellite larger than its primary planet...
Página 155 - It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense, either by sumptuary laws or by prohibiting the importation of foreign luxuries. They are themselves always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society.
Página 296 - LORD'S, and the ful1 ness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. 2 For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods. 3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD ? or who shall stand in his holy place ? 4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his эо soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
Página 521 - Taking the whole earth, instead of this island, emigration would of course be excluded; and, supposing the present population equal to a thousand millions, the human species would increase as the numbers, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256; and subsistence as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. In two centuries the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 to 9; in three centuries as 4096 to 13, and in two thousand years the difference would be almost incalculable.
Página 522 - The positive checks to population are extremely various, and include every cause, whether arising from vice or misery, which in any degree contributes to shorten the natural duration of human life. Under this head, therefore, may be enumerated all unwholesome occupations, severe labour and exposure to the seasons, extreme poverty, bad nursing of children, great towns, excesses of all kinds, the whole train of common diseases and epidemics, wars, plague, and famine.
Página 309 - And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence; neither was any deceit in his mouth.
Página 361 - An Act Against Such Persons as do Make Bankrupts, ' ' and is in part as follows : "Where divers and sundry persons craftily obtaining into their hands great substance of other men's goods, do suddenly flee to parts unknown, or keep their houses, not minding to pay or restore to any...
Página 521 - In the northern states of America, where the means of subsistence have been more ample, the manners of the people more pure, and the checks to early marriages fewer than in any of the modern states of Europe, the population has been found to double itself, for above a century and a half successively, in less than twenty-five years.
Página 291 - Those who have compared most of the European translations with the original, have not scrupled to say, that the English translation of the Bible, made under the direction of king James the First, is the most accurate and faithful of the whole. Nor," adds Dr. C., " is this its only praise : the translators have seized the very spirit and soul of the original, and expressed this almost every where with pathos and energy.