An Essay on the Distribution of Wealth and on the Sources of Taxation. By the Rev. Richard Jones ..., Volume 1 |
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It is scarcely pos** Such is the merit and charm of the volumes sible to open the book without seeing useful and before us , they place us at once by the side of the lively remarks , or descriptions indescribably de . author , and bring ...
It is scarcely pos** Such is the merit and charm of the volumes sible to open the book without seeing useful and before us , they place us at once by the side of the lively remarks , or descriptions indescribably de . author , and bring ...
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A NEW SYSTEM of GEOLOGY , in which the great Revolutions of the Earth and Animated Nature are reconciled at once to Modern Science and to Sacred History . By ANDREW URE , M.D. F.R.S. Member of the Geol . and Astron .
A NEW SYSTEM of GEOLOGY , in which the great Revolutions of the Earth and Animated Nature are reconciled at once to Modern Science and to Sacred History . By ANDREW URE , M.D. F.R.S. Member of the Geol . and Astron .
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The circumstances which encourage and make easy , or which discourage and obstruct the production of wealth , taking this new and enlarged view of it , became at once the objects of anxious enquiry and speculation .
The circumstances which encourage and make easy , or which discourage and obstruct the production of wealth , taking this new and enlarged view of it , became at once the objects of anxious enquiry and speculation .
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... know was itself at once elevated by the success of his work to a rank among the great objects of the intellectual efforts of mankind , which it is little likely ever again to lose ; and which , we must hope , will , at some future ...
... know was itself at once elevated by the success of his work to a rank among the great objects of the intellectual efforts of mankind , which it is little likely ever again to lose ; and which , we must hope , will , at some future ...
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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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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.