 | John Angel - Ireland - 1781 - 302 pages
...and more populous than thefe ; and it muf: be IRELAND. 165 be allowed, that the ftrength of a flate is not to be computed by extent of country, but by the number and labour of its inhabitants. Agriculture, it muft be confefled, is, in a manner, the p.irm materia... | |
 | Rev. William Tennant - India - 1808 - 384 pages
...that the internal strength of a nation is in no case to be estimated by the extent of its territory, but by the number of its citizens, and the utility of their labours : that the population, the wealth, and the power of a state, cannot be supported with permanence... | |
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The ftrcngth, of a ftate is not to be computed by extent of country, but by the number of its citizens, and the utility of their labour. 