Philanthropic Economy: Or, The Philosophy of Happiness, Practically Applied to the Social, Political and Commercial Relations of Great BritainE. Churton, 1835 - 312 pàgines |
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Pàgina 10
... other of all the means willed by benevolence , devised by wisdom , and executed by power , lifts the soul above all selfish and unjust desires , and gifts it with the faculties which are rendering it susceptible of that 10 THE PHILOSOPHY.
... other of all the means willed by benevolence , devised by wisdom , and executed by power , lifts the soul above all selfish and unjust desires , and gifts it with the faculties which are rendering it susceptible of that 10 THE PHILOSOPHY.
Pàgina 21
... of industry , whether individual or national ? Again , when industry does exist , and has pro- duced , who has not seen and lamented the wide spread wretchedness induced by an unjust distribu- tion of the OF HAPPINESS . 21.
... of industry , whether individual or national ? Again , when industry does exist , and has pro- duced , who has not seen and lamented the wide spread wretchedness induced by an unjust distribu- tion of the OF HAPPINESS . 21.
Pàgina 22
... unjust distribu- tion of the products of industry ? Again , common daily experience teaches almost every human being ... unjust desires of selfishness , is always a price much higher than their unjust gains are worth . Unfortunately ...
... unjust distribu- tion of the products of industry ? Again , common daily experience teaches almost every human being ... unjust desires of selfishness , is always a price much higher than their unjust gains are worth . Unfortunately ...
Pàgina 30
... unjust artificial circumstances , a Turk , a cannibal , a conqueror , a heathen savage who sacrifices his children at the shrine of Devils , or a prejudiced , though nominal christian states- man , pension - holder , land - owner , or ...
... unjust artificial circumstances , a Turk , a cannibal , a conqueror , a heathen savage who sacrifices his children at the shrine of Devils , or a prejudiced , though nominal christian states- man , pension - holder , land - owner , or ...
Pàgina 38
... unjust or ill - will - producing institutions of any kind , no luxury , no vice , no ignorance , no crime , no insolent pride , no mor- tified feeling , no injuries , no resentments , in short , no ungoverned passions whatever . And let ...
... unjust or ill - will - producing institutions of any kind , no luxury , no vice , no ignorance , no crime , no insolent pride , no mor- tified feeling , no injuries , no resentments , in short , no ungoverned passions whatever . And let ...
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Philanthropic Economy: Or, The Philosophy of Happiness, Practically Applied ... Mrs. Loudon (Margracia) Visualització completa - 1835 |
Philanthropic Economy: Or, The Philosophy of Happiness, Practically Applied ... Mrs. Loudon (Margracia) Visualització completa - 1835 |
Philanthropic Economy: Or, The Philosophy of Happiness, Practically Applied ... Mrs. Loudon (Margracia) Visualització completa - 1835 |
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abuse of free-will acre acts of parliament Adam Smith already artificial prices artificial scarcity artificial social system benevolence bread monopoly capital cause CHAPTER cheap food church comfort consequence constitute corn laws created creatures cultivated dear money direct tax double evil extension of felicity farmer fifty millions forced production free trade full employment fund give God's happiness honest idle including equal justice increase indirect individual industry injustice interest land landlords landowners law of primogeniture legislation manufactures means of moral members of parliament ment misery moral order moral sense national wealth natural circumstances necessary obtained operation parish parliament perty poll tax poor population portion possessed pounds principle of good-will profits property tax prosperity purchase purpose raw material raw produce realized property rendered rent revelation revenue sacred selfishness shillings Sir James Graham small allotment system taxation tion unjust vested visible vote wages waste lands whole
Passatges populars
Pàgina 264 - Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts ; 47 Which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.
Pàgina 143 - ... people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state. A tax may either take out or keep out of the pockets of the people a great deal more than it brings into the public treasury, in the four following ways. First? the levying of it may require a great number of officers, whose salaries may eat up the greater part of the produce of the tax, and whose perquisites may impose another additional tax upon the people.
Pàgina 143 - ... 4. Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state. A tax may either take out or keep out of the pockets of the people a great deal more than it brings into the public treasury, in the four following ways.
Pàgina 66 - Labour was the first price, the original purchasemoney that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased; and its value to those who possess it and who want to exchange it for some new productions is precisely equal to the quantity of labour which it can enable them to purchase or command.
Pàgina 68 - No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labor as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed and lodged.
Pàgina 129 - ... half of that which his Creator has furnished him with the natural means of obtaining for himself. Surely as much food as a man can buy, with as much wages as a man can get, for as much work as a man can do, is not more than the natural, inalienable birthright of every man whom God has created, with strength to labour, and with hands to work.
Pàgina 107 - Labour is there so well rewarded, that a numerous family of children, instead of being a burthen, is a source of opulence and prosperity to the parents. The labour of each child, before it can leave their house, is computed to be worth a hundred pounds clear gain to them.
Pàgina i - Secondly, taxes upon the necessaries of life have nearly the same effect upon the circumstances of the people as a poor soil and a bad climate. Provisions are thereby rendered dearer in the same manner as if it required extraordinary labour and expense to raise them.
Pàgina 119 - ... sense. The consequences cannot be mistaken : — the embarrassment of our shipping, mercantile, and manufacturing interests — want of employment, and desperate poverty among the labouring population — an increase of crime, and a tendency to emigration — a loss of our currency, and a fall of the prices of labour and of corn — a diminution of the public revenue, and a derangement of the public finances — and, more than all, the certain eventual ruin of the agricultural interest itself...
Pàgina 111 - The unlimited, unrestrained freedom of the corn trade, as it is the only effectual preventative of the miseries of a famine, so it is the best palliative of the inconveniences of a dearth; for the inconveniences of a real scarcity cannot be remedied, they can only be palliated.