An Essay on the Principle of Population: Or, A View of Its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness; with an Inquiry Into Our Prospects Respecting the Future Removal Or Mitigation of the Evils which it Occasions, 第 2 巻J. Murray, 1817 - 507 ページ |
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... profit of a farm must be combined , in order to support a family upon it , a land- tax must necessarily greatly impede cultivation ; though it has little or no effect of this kind when farms are large , and let out to tenants , as is ...
... profit of a farm must be combined , in order to support a family upon it , a land- tax must necessarily greatly impede cultivation ; though it has little or no effect of this kind when farms are large , and let out to tenants , as is ...
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... profit , to one which cannot maintain itself without a bounty . It should be observed in general , that when a fund for the maintenance of labour is raised by assessment , the greatest part of it is not a new capital brought into trade ...
... profit , to one which cannot maintain itself without a bounty . It should be observed in general , that when a fund for the maintenance of labour is raised by assessment , the greatest part of it is not a new capital brought into trade ...
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... profits of stock and the wages of labour will be high . These high profits and high wages , if habits of economy pretty gene- rally prevail , will furnish the means of a rapid accumulation of capital and a great and continued demand for ...
... profits of stock and the wages of labour will be high . These high profits and high wages , if habits of economy pretty gene- rally prevail , will furnish the means of a rapid accumulation of capital and a great and continued demand for ...
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... profits of stock , and keep the price of corn moderate , notwith- standing the great expense of these two elements of price . But in the production of manufactured commodities they must necessarily necessarily tell , without any ...
... profits of stock , and keep the price of corn moderate , notwith- standing the great expense of these two elements of price . But in the production of manufactured commodities they must necessarily necessarily tell , without any ...
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... profits of stock will naturally be high ; but corn will be very cheap , ow- ing to the goodness and plenty of the land , and the stationary demand for it , notwith- standing the high profits of stock ; while these high profits ...
... profits of stock will naturally be high ; but corn will be very cheap , ow- ing to the goodness and plenty of the land , and the stationary demand for it , notwith- standing the high profits of stock ; while these high profits ...
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341 ページ - ... a convenient stock of flax, hemp, wool, thread, iron, and other necessary ware and stuff to set the poor on work, and also competent sums of money for and towards the necessary relief of the lame, impotent, old, blind, and such other among them being poor and not able to work, and...
337 ページ - Even when they have an opportunity of saving, they seldom exercise it ; but all that they earn beyond their present necessities goes, generally speaking, to the ale-house. The poor-laws may therefore be said to diminish both the power and the will to save among the common people; and thus to weaken one of the strongest incentives to sobriety and industry, and consequently to happiness.
341 ページ - ... for setting to work all such persons, married or unmarried, having no means to maintain them, and use no ordinary and daily trade of life to get their living by...
193 ページ - Mexico is said to contain a hundred thousand inhabitants, which, notwithstanding the exaggerations of the Spanish writers, is supposed to be five times greater than what it contained in the time of Montezuma.
253 ページ - The irremediableness of marriage, as it is at present constituted, undoubtedly deters many from entering into this state. An unshackled intercourse on the contrary would be a most powerful incitement to early attachments; and as we are supposing no anxiety about the future support of children to exist, I do not conceive that there would be one -woman in a hundred, of twenty-three years of age, without a family.
250 ページ - Man cannot live in the midst of plenty. All cannot share alike the bounties of nature. Were there no established administration of property, every man would be obliged to guard with force his little store.
45 ページ - ... and sentiments with himself and used to the familiar intercourse of a society totally different from that to which she must be reduced by marriage. Can a man...
338 ページ - A man who might not be deterred from going to the ale-house from the consideration that on his death, or sickness, he should leave his wife and family upon the parish might yet hesitate in thus dissipating his earnings if he were assured that, in either of these cases, his family must starve or be left to the support of casual bounty.
335 ページ - ... support. Secondly, the quantity of provisions consumed in workhouses upon a part of the society that cannot, in general, be considered as the most valuable part diminishes the shares that would otherwise belong to more industrious and more worthy members, and thus in the same manner forces more to become dependent. If the poor in...
212 ページ - England, taking the highest proportion, it is as 117 to 100. Great and astonishing as this difference is, we ought not to be so wonderstruck at it, as to attribute it to the miraculous interposition of heaven. The causes of it are not remote, latent and mysterious; but near us, round about us, and open to the investigation of every inquiring mind.