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... increased but by a fall in wages ' —and is never increased by a better distribution of labour , by the invention of machinery , by the establishment of roads or canals , or by any means of abridging labour either in the manufacture or ...
... increased but by a fall in wages ' —and is never increased by a better distribution of labour , by the invention of machinery , by the establishment of roads or canals , or by any means of abridging labour either in the manufacture or ...
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... increased com- mand of bread did not , he adds , produce a proportionate increase of marriages and population ; instead of which , to 10 The Celibacy of the Nution .
... increased com- mand of bread did not , he adds , produce a proportionate increase of marriages and population ; instead of which , to 10 The Celibacy of the Nution .
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... increase in the wages of labour in Great Britain , there is reason to expect that the whole community will , at no ... increasing number of unmarried women , have asked ' Why are women redundant ? ' The question seems to us to partake of ...
... increase in the wages of labour in Great Britain , there is reason to expect that the whole community will , at no ... increasing number of unmarried women , have asked ' Why are women redundant ? ' The question seems to us to partake of ...
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... increased with the number of eldest sons , nor places ' with the number of younger sons ; church livings and curates ' stipends would not have grown with the number of clergymen briefs and guineas would not have multiplied in proportion ...
... increased with the number of eldest sons , nor places ' with the number of younger sons ; church livings and curates ' stipends would not have grown with the number of clergymen briefs and guineas would not have multiplied in proportion ...
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... increased with civilization , and that the people now in England are better off than their ancestors , whose number was compara- tively small . But although civilization has made it possible for increased numbers to live , it has not ...
... increased with civilization , and that the people now in England are better off than their ancestors , whose number was compara- tively small . But although civilization has made it possible for increased numbers to live , it has not ...
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Página 154 - ... greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
Página 154 - By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security ; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain; and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
Página 53 - All systems, either of preference or of restraint, therefore, being thus completely taken away, the obvious and simple system of natural liberty establishes itself of its own accord. Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to -pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man, or order of men.
Página 44 - Of two pleasures, if there be one to which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
Página 45 - The heart knoweth its own bitterness ; and a stranger intermeddleth not with its joy.
Página 166 - The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition, when suffered to exert itself with freedom and security, is so powerful a principle that it is alone, and without any assistance, not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often incumbers its operations...
Página 36 - And after more than two thousand years the same discussions continue, philosophers are still ranged under the same contending banners, and neither thinkers nor mankind at large seem nearer to being unanimous on the subject...
Página 32 - I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England.
Página 44 - It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied ; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. The other party to the comparison knows both sides.
Página 55 - It is a manifest encroachment upon the just liberty both of the workman, and of those who might be disposed to employ him. As it hinders the one from working at what he thinks proper, so it hinders the others from employing whom they think proper.