 | Richard Orr Curry, Lawrence B. Goodheart - 1991 - 292 páginas
...and property, and you need not give alms. Open the door of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will not be in bad hands. In a free and just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and the imbecile to the industrious, brave and persevering. 69 At times, therefore, Emerson appeared to... | |
 | Christopher Newfield - 1996 - 292 páginas
...sumptuary laws. Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and property, and you need not give alms. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and...persevering. The laws of nature play through trade, as a toy-battery exhibits the effects of electricity. The level of the sea is not more surely kept, than... | |
 | Christopher Newfield - 1996 - 294 páginas
...no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and property, and you need not give alms. Open the dcxirs of opportunity to talent and virtue, and they will...persevering. The laws of nature play through trade, as a toy-battery exhibits the effecis of electricity. The level of the sea is not more surely kept, than... | |
 | Paul Bernstein - 1997 - 380 páginas
...pride in work and success (Alger, Tom Turner, 177). Emerson added his support for labor by noting that "property rushes from the idle and imbecile to the industrious, brave, and persevering" (Rischin, 41). To which Longfellow noted in his "Ladder of St. Augustine" that great men did not reach... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2001 - 34 páginas
...sumptuary laws. Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and property, and you need not give alms. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and...imbecile, to the industrious, brave, and persevering. A s long as your genius buys, the investment is safe, though you FIND WHERE YOUR spend like a monarch.... | |
 | Jeffrey P. Sklansky - 2002 - 340 páginas
...of the widening structural inequality between propertied and propertyless in industrial New England. "In a free and just commonwealth, property rushes...imbecile to the industrious, brave, and persevering," he wrote.72 But his own erasure of political economy's core conceptual apparatus rendered the organization... | |
 | Derek Bok - 2002 - 360 páginas
...their earnings. According to Francis Bowen, a nineteenth-century Harvard professor of practical ethics, "In a free and just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and the imbecile, to the industrious, brave and persevering."11 Why shouldn't entrepreneurs reap a handsome... | |
 | Steven Lukes - 2006 - 150 páginas
...tending towards a morally superior voluntary social order, a 'free and just commonwealth' in which 'property rushes from the idle and imbecile to the industrious, brave and persevering'.7 For the historian John William Draper, writing immediately after the Civil War, in celebration... | |
 | John P. Diggins - 2007 - 536 páginas
...marketplace, the benefits to society. In a speech on the curse of taxes, Reagan delighted in quoting the poet: "In a free and just commonwealth, property rushes...from the idle and imbecile, to the industrious, brave & persevering."29 Emerson said other things that resonated with Reagan. From his earliest teenage years... | |
 | 1907 - 314 páginas
...sumptuary laws. Give no bounties, make equal laws, secure life and property, and you need not give alms. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and...imbecile to the industrious, brave, and persevering." " If we, the civilised races of the world, adopt the Socialistic basis of society, while the more vigorous... | |
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The basis of political economy is non-interference. The only safe rule is found in the selfadjusting meter of demand and supply. Do not legislate. Meddle, and you snap the sinews with your sumptuary laws. Give no bounties, make equal laws, secure life... 
