An Inquiry Into the Various Systems of Political Economy: Their Advantages and Disadvantages : and the Theory Most Favourable to the Increase of National WealthPeter A. Mesier, 1819 - 492 sider |
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... cause ought we to ascribe a distinction so degrading to humanity ? Not to human nature : it makes neither masters nor slaves , neither rich nor poor . The inequality of strength , courage , and ac tivity , may have produced the ...
... cause ought we to ascribe a distinction so degrading to humanity ? Not to human nature : it makes neither masters nor slaves , neither rich nor poor . The inequality of strength , courage , and ac tivity , may have produced the ...
Side 24
... causes and effects of this political phenomenon are established beyond contradiction , by the annals of all the distinguished nations of antiquity . The Persians , who appear first on the theatre of history , were wretchedly poor when ...
... causes and effects of this political phenomenon are established beyond contradiction , by the annals of all the distinguished nations of antiquity . The Persians , who appear first on the theatre of history , were wretchedly poor when ...
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... caused the ruin of the state * . A few huts , built by strangers and fugitives on the sea - shore , were the slender foundations on which arose the magnificent towers of proud Carthage . Though at first indebted for her wealth to ...
... caused the ruin of the state * . A few huts , built by strangers and fugitives on the sea - shore , were the slender foundations on which arose the magnificent towers of proud Carthage . Though at first indebted for her wealth to ...
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... cause of their greatness and power , it was the dread of poverty which occasioned their decline and ruin . Rome , founded by robbers and fugitive slaves who were seeking an asylum against the justice of the laws , had for a long time ...
... cause of their greatness and power , it was the dread of poverty which occasioned their decline and ruin . Rome , founded by robbers and fugitive slaves who were seeking an asylum against the justice of the laws , had for a long time ...
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... cause of their victories , con- quests , domination , and power ; and it is with as much justice as truth that the immortal Montesquieu has ranked their passion for wealth among the causes of their grandeur . The riches accumulated at ...
... cause of their victories , con- quests , domination , and power ; and it is with as much justice as truth that the immortal Montesquieu has ranked their passion for wealth among the causes of their grandeur . The riches accumulated at ...
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