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... , without either launching into lengthy discussion , or stating shortly as facts , what are really only conjectures . Those who may wish to follow the matter up to the original testimony , Book I. Chap . iii . Sect . 2 . 76 Rents .
... , without either launching into lengthy discussion , or stating shortly as facts , what are really only conjectures . Those who may wish to follow the matter up to the original testimony , Book I. Chap . iii . Sect . 2 . 76 Rents .
Page 103
... follow naturally . The proprietors , ( says Turgot , ) who only advance stock because they cannot avoid it , and who are themselves not rich , confine their advances to what is most strictly ne- cessary ; accordingly , there is no ...
... follow naturally . The proprietors , ( says Turgot , ) who only advance stock because they cannot avoid it , and who are themselves not rich , confine their advances to what is most strictly ne- cessary ; accordingly , there is no ...
Page 142
... follow the augmenting their landed revenues , from the one , or from the other , of these sources of increase . Hence in a great measure the actual state of Asia , the misery of the people , the poverty and feebleness of the governments ...
... follow the augmenting their landed revenues , from the one , or from the other , of these sources of increase . Hence in a great measure the actual state of Asia , the misery of the people , the poverty and feebleness of the governments ...
Page 178
... follow- ing those who have promulgated such opinions , into a labyrinth of abstract argument . The dogmas al- luded to are sufficiently familiar to all readers of later writers on Political Economy . Their substance 66 66 Chap . vi . of ...
... follow- ing those who have promulgated such opinions , into a labyrinth of abstract argument . The dogmas al- luded to are sufficiently familiar to all readers of later writers on Political Economy . Their substance 66 66 Chap . vi . of ...
Page 197
... follow : he says : " If capital could be indefinitely employed upon the " old land without a diminished return , there could " be no rise of rent . " Improvements in agri- " culture , which are common to all lands , and do " not much ...
... follow : he says : " If capital could be indefinitely employed upon the " old land without a diminished return , there could " be no rise of rent . " Improvements in agri- " culture , which are common to all lands , and do " not much ...
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