Four Introductory Lectures on Political Economy: Delivered Before the University of OxfordLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852 - 76 sider |
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... scientific habits of thought prevail , men are teazed by any appearance for which they cannot account . Their first motive is to question its reality . Evidence of mesmeric clairvoyance has been produced enough to satisfy a sceptical ...
... scientific habits of thought prevail , men are teazed by any appearance for which they cannot account . Their first motive is to question its reality . Evidence of mesmeric clairvoyance has been produced enough to satisfy a sceptical ...
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... scientific ambition , and to urge the most unwearied scientific labours . The astronomer does not consider what will be the practical results of his inquiries , or whether they will lead to any practical results what- ever . His object ...
... scientific ambition , and to urge the most unwearied scientific labours . The astronomer does not consider what will be the practical results of his inquiries , or whether they will lead to any practical results what- ever . His object ...
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... scientific part of the work , particularly the chapters on population , and on the influence of taxation on wages , contains truths of great importance , which were unknown to his contemporaries , and cannot be said to be generally ...
... scientific part of the work , particularly the chapters on population , and on the influence of taxation on wages , contains truths of great importance , which were unknown to his contemporaries , and cannot be said to be generally ...
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... scientific treatise . It contains not a word of precept ; and might have been written by an ascetic , who believed wealth to be an evil . We now come to Adam Smith , the founder of modern Political Economy , whether it be treated as a ...
... scientific treatise . It contains not a word of precept ; and might have been written by an ascetic , who believed wealth to be an evil . We now come to Adam Smith , the founder of modern Political Economy , whether it be treated as a ...
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... scientific portion of his work is merely an introduction to that which is practical . Of the five books into which the work is divided , it occupies only the first and second . The third is an historical sketch of the progress of ...
... scientific portion of his work is merely an introduction to that which is practical . Of the five books into which the work is divided , it occupies only the first and second . The third is an historical sketch of the progress of ...
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Side 21 - Thomson's Tables of Interest, at Three, Four, Four-and-a-Half, and Five per Cent., from One Pound to Ten Thousand, and from 1 to 365 Days, In a regular progression of single Days ; with Interest at all the above Rates, from One to Twelve Months, and from One to Ten Years.
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Side 9 - Col. Hawker's Instructions to Young Sportsmen in all that relates to Guns and Shooting.
Side 10 - Visits to Remarkable Places : Old Halls, Battle-Fields, and Scenes illustrative of Striking Passages in English History and Poetry. By WILLIAM HOWITT. 2 vols. square crown 8vo. with Wood Engravings, 25s. The Rural Life of England.
Side 5 - The Cabinet Lawyer; a Popular Digest of the Laws of England, Civil, Criminal, and Constitutional. Twenty-Fifth Edition, corrected and extended. Fcp. 8vo.