 | David Ricardo - 1821 - 566 ページ
...to expect that all other taxes together would be light compared with the single one of poor rates. The principle of gravitation is not more certain than...confound all intellectual distinction ; to busy the mind continually in supplying the body's wants ; until at last all classes should be infected with the plague... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1823 - 424 ページ
...poor must ardently wish for their abolition." — " The principle of gravitation," he continues, " is not more certain than the tendency of such laws...confound all intellectual distinction; to busy the mind continually in supplying the body's wants ; until at last all classes should be infected with the plague... | |
 | 1824 - 884 ページ
...applicable to the scheme for granting cottages, " is not more certain than the tendency of such a system to change wealth and power into misery and weakness ; to call away the exertion of labour from every object except that of providing mere subsistence ; to confound all intellectual... | |
 | James Suter - 1867 - 112 ページ
...fund from the country at large. The present mode of collection has mitigated its pernicious effects. The principle of gravitation is not more certain than...change wealth and power into misery and weakness, and to infect all classes with the plague of universal poverty, (Ricardo's Political Economy, chap.... | |
 | Sir Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave - 1871 - 182 ページ
...in municipal cities and boroughs " in which the county justices have either no jurisdiction or a " weakness ; to call away the exertions of labour from...all intellectual distinction ; to busy " the mind continually in supplying the body's wants ; until at last all " classes should be infected with the... | |
 | Sir Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave - 1871 - 148 ページ
...to expect that all other taxes together would be light com" pared with the single one of poor rates. The principle of gravitation is not more " certain...such laws to change wealth and power into misery and More detail has been entered into with regard to the poor rate than will be needful in the case of... | |
 | David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch - 1886 - 688 ページ
...to expect that all other taxes together would be light compared with the single one of poor rates. The principle of gravitation is not more certain than...confound all intellectual distinction ; to busy the mind continually in supplying the body's wants ; until at last all classes should be infected with the plague... | |
 | David Ricardo - 1895 - 166 ページ
...to expect that all other taxes together would be light compared with the single one of poor rates. The principle of gravitation is not more certain than...confound all intellectual distinction ; to busy the mind continually in supplying the body's wants ; until at last all classes should be infected with the plague... | |
 | David Ricardo - 1919 - 526 ページ
...to expect that all other taxes together would be light compared with the single one of poor rates. The principle of gravitation is not more certain than...power into misery and weakness ; to call away the exertion's of labour from every object, except that of providing mere subsistence ; to confound all... | |
 | Graham Wallas - 1921 - 304 ページ
...at first or second hand. Ricardo, writing in 1817 on the effects of non-deterrent Poor Laws, said: " The principle of gravitation is not more certain than...change wealth and power into misery and weakness"; I and, in spite of occasional attempts to protect himself from oversimplification in his reasoning,... | |
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The principle of gravitation is not more certain than the tendency of such laws to change wealth and power into misery and weakness; to call away the exertions of labour from every object, except that of providing mere subsistence ; to confound all intellectual... 
