 In those countries where the labouring classes have the fewest wants, and are contented with the cheapest food, the people are exposed to the greatest vicissitudes and miseries. They have no place of refuge from calamity; they cannot seek safety in a...  The Works of David Ricardo - Page 56by David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch - 1886 - 584 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1820 - 590 pages
...They have no place of refuge from calamity ; they cannot seek safety in a lower station ; they are already so low, that they can fall no lower. On any deficiency of the chief articles of their subsistence, there are few substitutes of which they can avail themselves; and dearth... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1817 - 680 pages
...They have no place of refuge from calamity ; they cannot seek safety in a lower station ; they are already so low, that they can fall no lower. On any...is attended with almost all the evils of famine." (100 — 102.) Mr. Preston, in his Observations on the State of the Nation, says, the poor- rate should... | |
 | James Wade - 1818 - 396 pages
...place of refuge [from calamity; they cannot seek safety in a lower station, they are already so low they can fall no lower. On any deficiency of the chief article of their subsistehce, there are few substitutes of which they can avail themselves, and dearth is to them attended... | |
 | 1820 - 562 pages
...They have no place of refuge from calamity ; they cannot seek safety in a lower station ; they are already so low, that they can fall no lower. On any deficiency of the chief articles of their subsistence, there are few substitutes of which they can avail themselves ; and dearth... | |
 | David Ricardo - Economics - 1821 - 560 pages
...They have no place of refuge from calamity ; they cannot seek safety in a lower station ; they are already so low, that they can fall no lower. On any...them is attended with almost all the evils of famine. v In the natural advance of society, the wages of labour will have a tendency to fall, as far as they... | |
 | 1820 - 558 pages
...station ; they are already so low, that they can fall no lower. On any deficiency of the chief articles of their subsistence, there are few substitutes of...is attended with almost all the evils of famine." Nor is this all : — Men placed in such circumstances, and cut nil', as they must be, from all hope... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1824 - 884 pages
...miseries. They have no place of refuge from calamity ; they cannot seek safety in a lower station; they are already so low, that they can fall no lower. On any...is attended with almost all the evils of famine." The corn law of 1804, the first framed subsequently to the Union, extended to Ireland, and the price... | |
 | J. C. Ross - Economics - 1827 - 486 pages
...They have no place of refuge from calamity — they cannot seek safety in a lower station — they are already so low that they can fall no lower. On any deficiency of the chief articles of their subsistence, there are few substitutes of which they can avail themselves, and dearth... | |
 | Botany, Economic - 1832 - 412 pages
...They have no place of refuge from calamity ; they cannot seek refuge in a lower station ; they are already so low, that they can fall no lower. On any...subsistence, there are few substitutes of which they can Hvail themselves, and dearth to them is attended with almost all the evils of famine." If a scarcity... | |
 | Edwin Lankester - Food - 1832 - 416 pages
...They have no place of refuge from calamity ; they cannot seek refuge in a lower station ; they are already so low, that they can fall no lower. On any...is attended with almost all the evils of famine." If a scarcity of food should be experienced in this country, the great bulk of the common people, nay... | |
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