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... a peck of wheat with a day's labour . ' But this greatly 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 .
... a peck of wheat with a day's labour . ' But this greatly 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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... produce as many energetic characters as ten millions . And this country , at least , now draws its energetic characters from the millions , instead of as formerly only from the thousands . Nor is the latitude of scope for individuality ...
... produce as many energetic characters as ten millions . And this country , at least , now draws its energetic characters from the millions , instead of as formerly only from the thousands . Nor is the latitude of scope for individuality ...
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... produce a certain effect . . . . In comparing the powers of physical and political science , we must bear in mind that no science can properly be said to predict anything . The general affirmations of a science apply indeed equally to ...
... produce a certain effect . . . . In comparing the powers of physical and political science , we must bear in mind that no science can properly be said to predict anything . The general affirmations of a science apply indeed equally to ...
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... producing on emergency an individual of their species gifted with inherent sovereign qualities . If , then , it be suggested that human science can give no solution of the career of prodigies of human genius , can trace no sequence ...
... producing on emergency an individual of their species gifted with inherent sovereign qualities . If , then , it be suggested that human science can give no solution of the career of prodigies of human genius , can trace no sequence ...
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... produce and favour it , from the Elector to the state of the Empire , and from Tetzel , the vender of indulgences , to the state of the Papacy . The rolls of the English Parliament , the popular ballads , the writings of Wicliffe and ...
... produce and favour it , from the Elector to the state of the Empire , and from Tetzel , the vender of indulgences , to the state of the Papacy . The rolls of the English Parliament , the popular ballads , the writings of Wicliffe and ...
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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.