 | Sir William Petty - 1769 - 566 ページ
...whereof was the (hip-money, no fmall caufe of twenty years calamity to the whole kingdom. 12. 8. Fewnefs of people, is real poverty; and a nation wherein are eight millions of people, are more B 2 than than twice as rich as the fame fcope of land wherein are but four ; for the fame governors... | |
 | Sir John Carr - 1806 - 366 ページ
...small and frequently jocose surprise of the Irish soldier. Sir William Petty well observes, that " Fewness of people is real poverty; and a nation wherein are " eight millions of people, is more than twice as rich as the same " scope of land wherein are but four." Montesquieu quaintly... | |
 | Sir John Carr - 1806 - 322 ページ
...Fewness of people is real pover" ty ; and a ixation wherein are eight millions of people, is " more than twice as rich as the same scope of land wherein " are but four." Montesquieu quaintly calls population " une " immense manufacture." I can confidently assert, that... | |
 | Henry Mayers Hyndman - 1883 - 548 ページ
...nature." Nor are his views on the questions of vagrants, beggars, and population less sound. For example, "fewness of people is real poverty ; and a nation wherein are eight millions of people is more than twice as rich as the same scope of land wherein are but four." " Those who cannot find... | |
 | Henry Mayers Hyndman - 1883 - 564 ページ
...nature." Nor are his views on the questions of vagrants, beggars, and population less sound. For example, "fewness of people is real poverty; and a nation wherein are eight millions of people is more than twice as rich as the same scope of land wherein are but four." " Those who cannot find... | |
 | Henry Mayers Hyndman - 1883 - 1044 ページ
...quality, few men spending less than double of what might suffice them as the bare necessities of nature." of people is real poverty ; and a nation wherein are eight millions of people is more than twice as rich as the same scope of land wherein are but four." " Those who cannot find... | |
 | Henry Mayers Hyndman - 1883 - 552 ページ
..."fewness of people is real poverty ; and a nation wherein are eight millions of people is more than twice as rich as the same scope of land wherein are but four." " Those who cannot find work (though able and willing to perform it) by reason of the unequal application... | |
 | Charles Emil Stangeland - 1904 - 378 ページ
...stronger and more prosperous 1P. 224 (c/. Hul1's edition). the country. In this Treatise l he says: " Fewness of people is real poverty, and a nation wherein are eight millions of people are more than twice as rich as the same scope of land wherein are four; for the same governors, which are the... | |
 | Henry Mayers Hyndman - 1919 - 372 ページ
...wrote more than two hundred years ago; and "a nation wherein are eight millions of people is more than twice as rich as the same scope of land wherein are but four," as Petty wisely stated, about the same date. If this was so obviously true at the end of the seventeenth... | |
 | 1921 - 614 ページ
...his people, well united and governed."1 " Fewness of People," he says elsewhere in the same work,' " is real poverty ; and a Nation wherein are eight millions of people is more than twice as rich as the same scope of land wherein are but four ; for the same Governors... | |
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Fewness of people, is real poverty; and a Nation wherein are Eight Millions of people, are more than twice as rich as the same scope of Land wherein are but Four... 
