The Working Man's Manual: A New Theory of Political Economy, on the Principle of Production the Source of Wealth. Including an Enquiry Into the Principles of Public Credit, Currency, the Wages of Laborers, the Production of Wealth, the Distribution of Wealth, Consumption of Wealth, Popular Education, and the Elements of Social Government in General as They Appear Open to the Scrutiny of Common Sense and the Philosophy of the AgeThomas L. Bonsal, 1831 - 272 páginas |
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... gold and silver consti- tute wealth , and which must be classed among the vul- gar errors of the age , will be shocked to learn that they are nothing but the symbols of riches : and in respect to labour , have the same basis as the ...
... gold and silver consti- tute wealth , and which must be classed among the vul- gar errors of the age , will be shocked to learn that they are nothing but the symbols of riches : and in respect to labour , have the same basis as the ...
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... gold , or silver . Our habitations , our farms , our well - stored granaries , our ships , our cattle , our looms , and our ploughs , would be as perfect and as entire without gold and silver , as they would be without diamonds and ...
... gold , or silver . Our habitations , our farms , our well - stored granaries , our ships , our cattle , our looms , and our ploughs , would be as perfect and as entire without gold and silver , as they would be without diamonds and ...
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... gold , silver , or paper currency — although the latter is almost too precarious to be classed so high . In the foregoing reasoning I have proceeded on the ground , that all the producers were freemen , entitled to the product of their ...
... gold , silver , or paper currency — although the latter is almost too precarious to be classed so high . In the foregoing reasoning I have proceeded on the ground , that all the producers were freemen , entitled to the product of their ...
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... gold , silver , or paper , certainty of standard , or measurement exists no longer . Here LAW begins to be substituted for fact , and the tremendous power of CAPITAL commences the appli- cation of its lever , to remove the relations of ...
... gold , silver , or paper , certainty of standard , or measurement exists no longer . Here LAW begins to be substituted for fact , and the tremendous power of CAPITAL commences the appli- cation of its lever , to remove the relations of ...
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... gold and silver , in a commercial state of society . But this also depends on the rectitude and good faith of law makers , that they do not vitiate the coin , or vary its quality . For property depends upon the caret of value , as much ...
... gold and silver , in a commercial state of society . But this also depends on the rectitude and good faith of law makers , that they do not vitiate the coin , or vary its quality . For property depends upon the caret of value , as much ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Adam Smith amount argument aristocracy augmented balance of trade bank bills become benefit capital capitalist cause cent character charters circulation civil classes coin comfort commerce common compound labour constitution consume consumption creditor David Hume debt debtor degra degradation depreciated currency depreciation distribution division of labour doctrine dollars dustry enjoyment equal equitable equivalent evil exchange exist extortion favour feudal fictitious capital foreign fortune fraud gold and silver Hanse towns happiness Hence human idle IDLE CLASS ignorance importance increase industry institutions interest justice land laws liberty luxury manufactures mass ment merchant millions mind misery monopoly moral national wealth nature never operation oppression paper credits paper money pernicious political economy population possess poverty precious metals principle produce profit prosperity public credit reason rich slaves society specie stitution stockholders tariff tion toil United usury virtue wages of labour
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Página 238 - He has endeavoured to prevent the Population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and Payment of their salaries. He has...
Página 238 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Página 49 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Página 239 - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Página 50 - The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied ; Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds...
Página 167 - Government is wisely prohibited to the individual States, by the national constitution ; and the spirit of that prohibition ought not to be disregarded by the Government of the United States.
Página 50 - Takes up a space that many poor supplied; Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds: The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth Has...
Página 49 - Hoards even beyond the miser's wish abound, And rich men flock from all the world around. Yet count our gains. This wealth is but a name That leaves our useful products still the same.
Página 114 - What pity LYCURGUS did not think of paper-credit, when he wanted to banish gold and silver from SPARTA ! It would have served his purpose better than the lumps of iron he made use of as money ; and would also have prevented more effectually all commerce with strangers, as being of so much less real and intrinsic value.
Página 137 - It must, indeed, be confessed, that nature is so liberal to mankind, that, were all her presents equally divided among the species, and improved by art and industry, every individual would enjoy all the necessaries, and even most of the comforts of life ; nor would ever be liable to any ills, but such as might accidentally arise from the sickly frame and constitution of his body. It must also be confessed, that wherever we depart from this equality, we rob the poor of more satisfaction than we add...