An Essay on the Distribution of Wealth and on the Sources of Taxation. By the Rev. Richard Jones ..., Volume 1 |
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Colonel Briggs's book is one of those which belong to the library as a sterling and permanent work . " -Lit . Gaz . 25 . BOOK RARITIES in the UNIVERSITY of CAMBRIDGE . Illustrated by Original Letters and Notes , Biographical , Literary ...
Colonel Briggs's book is one of those which belong to the library as a sterling and permanent work . " -Lit . Gaz . 25 . BOOK RARITIES in the UNIVERSITY of CAMBRIDGE . Illustrated by Original Letters and Notes , Biographical , Literary ...
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BOOK I. CHAP . I. . Division of Subject . . The word Wealth presents itself to different Book I. minds with such variety of meaning , that it will be chap . i . best to begin by fixing on some conventional limit to Division of the sense ...
BOOK I. CHAP . I. . Division of Subject . . The word Wealth presents itself to different Book I. minds with such variety of meaning , that it will be chap . i . best to begin by fixing on some conventional limit to Division of the sense ...
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Book I. results of the facts or reasonings we shall have to Chap . i . adduce , will be in will be in no degree affected by the Division of change . subject . All wealth , whatever be its source , is made available for the purposes of ...
Book I. results of the facts or reasonings we shall have to Chap . i . adduce , will be in will be in no degree affected by the Division of change . subject . All wealth , whatever be its source , is made available for the purposes of ...
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into three divisions , which may conveniently be made Book I. the subject of three books , devoted to the examination Chap . i . . of those circumstances which in different stages of Division of society determine the amount , first of ...
into three divisions , which may conveniently be made Book I. the subject of three books , devoted to the examination Chap . i . . of those circumstances which in different stages of Division of society determine the amount , first of ...
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1 . therefore to see without surprise , the different sys- Book I. Chap . i . tems of rents which in this state of things have arisen out of the peculiar circumstances of different people , forming the main ties which hold society ...
1 . therefore to see without surprise , the different sys- Book I. Chap . i . tems of rents which in this state of things have arisen out of the peculiar circumstances of different people , forming the main ties which hold society ...
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Page 210 - ... no demand for any additional quantity of corn ; the capital and labour employed on No. 3 will be devoted to the production of other commodities desirable to the community, and can have no effect in raising rent, unless the raw material from which they are made cannot be obtained without employing capital less advantageously on the land, in which case No. 3 must again be cultivated.