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Mr. Ricardo , however , overlooking altogether the limited extent of the field to which these principles were really applicable , undertook from them alone to deduce the laws which regulate the nature and amount of the revenue derived ...
Mr. Ricardo , however , overlooking altogether the limited extent of the field to which these principles were really applicable , undertook from them alone to deduce the laws which regulate the nature and amount of the revenue derived ...
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With the commanding influence of superior talent , he had fixed at once the attention of the world on a physical power possessed by the human race , of multiplying its aggregate numbers ; which , if long exerted to its greatest extent ...
With the commanding influence of superior talent , he had fixed at once the attention of the world on a physical power possessed by the human race , of multiplying its aggregate numbers ; which , if long exerted to its greatest extent ...
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But that the theoretical advocacy of these visions has , to a certain extent , tainted the moral feeling of a portion , we may hope a small portion , of the educated classes , that their industrious dissemination by ready agents ...
But that the theoretical advocacy of these visions has , to a certain extent , tainted the moral feeling of a portion , we may hope a small portion , of the educated classes , that their industrious dissemination by ready agents ...
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... and fortunes of large bodies of men , differing from himself in moral or physical temperament , and influenced by differences , varying in extent and variously combined , in climate , soil , religion , education and government .
... and fortunes of large bodies of men , differing from himself in moral or physical temperament , and influenced by differences , varying in extent and variously combined , in climate , soil , religion , education and government .
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... that the progress of knowledge on such a subject must be difficult and slow ' ; and that , almost in exact proportion to the extent of the field to be observed , and the complexity and intricacy of the results presented by it .
... that the progress of knowledge on such a subject must be difficult and slow ' ; and that , almost in exact proportion to the extent of the field to be observed , and the complexity and intricacy of the results presented by it .
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| Title | An Essay on the Distribution of Wealth and on the Sources of Taxation. By the Rev. Richard Jones ..., Volume 1 An Essay on the Distribution of Wealth, and on the Sources of Taxation, Richard Jones Books for college libraries Issue 26666 of Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature "Essay on the distribution of wealth ... Part I.--Rent." |
| Author | Richard Jones |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1831 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 6 May 2008 |
| Length | 329 pages |
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