An Inquiry Into the State of National Subsistence: As Connected with the Progress of Wealth and PopulationT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1808 - 382 páginas |
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... species of industry , and how they reciprocally act upon each other in increasing the wealth of a coun- try . But the occasional scarcities of grain , which since his time have produced aggravated effects in respect to the condition of ...
... species of industry , and how they reciprocally act upon each other in increasing the wealth of a coun- try . But the occasional scarcities of grain , which since his time have produced aggravated effects in respect to the condition of ...
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... species of sophistry : because we are compelled to admit many inferences in reasoning , to which our understandings cannot assent , the direct tendency of which is to create a doubt of the utility of those discussions in which the best ...
... species of sophistry : because we are compelled to admit many inferences in reasoning , to which our understandings cannot assent , the direct tendency of which is to create a doubt of the utility of those discussions in which the best ...
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... species . Others , viewing population as a means of increasing wealth , consider depopulation and decline as synoni- mous ; they regard the actual production of subsistence as already superabundant , which , by enabling every order in ...
... species . Others , viewing population as a means of increasing wealth , consider depopulation and decline as synoni- mous ; they regard the actual production of subsistence as already superabundant , which , by enabling every order in ...
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... species of excess . Both the power and revenues of the crown , under the turbulence and anarchy of the times , had decreased since the time of the conquest . According to Sir John Sinclair ( App . I. ) the re- venue which at that time ...
... species of excess . Both the power and revenues of the crown , under the turbulence and anarchy of the times , had decreased since the time of the conquest . According to Sir John Sinclair ( App . I. ) the re- venue which at that time ...
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... species ; and this very gradation retards the progress of the improve- ment of the country . Man is so much the creature of habit , that it appears to be with the greatest difficulty nations change their character ; and they seldom pass ...
... species ; and this very gradation retards the progress of the improve- ment of the country . Man is so much the creature of habit , that it appears to be with the greatest difficulty nations change their character ; and they seldom pass ...
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afford agriculture annual produce arising articles of subsistence average price balance of trade barley bounty bullion Calais capital causes Charles II circulation circumstances commerce commodities competition consequence consumed consumption continued coun cultivation decline demand duty Edward Edward VI effect employed encouragement England English wheat enhancement equal Europe exceed existed exportation of grain extension farmer feudal Flanders foreign wheat growth harvest Henry VI Henry VIII Heptarchy improvement increase industry interest king kingdom labour land land-owners laws limited lord Lord Lauderdale lower orders manufacturing ment mercantile merchant stranger merchants millions nation nature necessary neral notwithstanding occasioned period persons population ports present money price of wheat prices of grain probably proportion quantity quarter of wheat realm reduced regulations reign rendered rent revenue Richard II riches rise scarcity sell Sir John Sinclair society sold species stocks supplies supposed tillage tion trade unfavourable usury wealth wool
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Página 15 - Crown, shall be void and of no avail or force whatever ; but the matters which are to be established for the estate of our lord the King and of his heirs, and for the estate of the realm and of the people, shall be treated, accorded, and established in Parliaments, by our lord the King, and by the assent of the prelates, earls, and barons, and the commonalty of the realm ; according as it hath been heretofore accustomed.
Página 44 - Acts,' whereby, after reciting that it had been found by experience that the restraint laid by several statutes upon the dealing in corn, meal, flour, cattle, and sundry other sorts of victuals, by preventing a free trade in the said commodities, have a tendency to discourage the growth and to enhance the price of the same, which statutes, if put in execution, would bring great distress upon the inhabitants of many parts of this kingdom, and in particular upon those of the cities of London and Westminster...
Página 33 - The abatement of interest from ten in the hundred in former times," the preamble declares, " hath been found, by notable experience, beneficial to the advancement of trade and improvement of lands by good husbandry...
Página 15 - King to understand in this present parliament, by the petition of the commonalty, that the said servants having no regard to the said ordinance, but to their ease and singular covetise, do withdraw themselves to serve great men and other, unless they have livery and wages to the double or treble of that they were wont to take...
Página 15 - ... that such manner of servants, as well men as women, should be bound to serve, receiving salary and wages, accustomed in places where they ought to serve in the twentieth year of the reign of the king that now is, or five or six years before...
Página 31 - ... and great quantities of land within this kingdom for the present lying in a manner waste, and yielding little, which might thereby be improved to considerable profit and advantage (if sufficient encouragement were given for the laying out...
Página 34 - And whereas the heavy burden of the late long and expensive war hath been chiefly borne by the owners of the land of this kingdom, by reason whereof they have been necessitated to contract very large debts, and thereby, and by the abatement in the value of their lands, are become greatly impoverished...
Página 33 - ... doth not only make men unable to pay their debts, and continue the maintenance of trade, but their debts daily increasing, they are forced to sell their lands and stocks at very low rates, to forsake the use of merchandize and trade, and to give over their leases and farms, and so become unprofitable members of the commonwealth, to the great hurt and hinderance of the same.
Página 20 - ... raised in every part of this realm ; which things thus used be principally to the high displeasure of Almighty God, to the decay of the hospitality of this realm, to the diminishing of the king's people, and to the let of the cloth making, whereby many poor people have been accustomed to be set on work ; and in conclusion, if remedy be not found, it may turn to the utter destruction and desolation of this realm, which God defend.