An Inquiry Into the Various Systems of Political Economy: Their Advantages and Disadvantages; and the Theory Most Favourable to the Increase of National WealthHenry Colburn, 1812 - 492 sider |
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Side 24
... less celebrated for their contempt of riches than for their astonishing exploits , appear little entitled to the praises with which they have been honoured by posterity . They reduced the Helotes , or inhabitants of Laconia , to ...
... less celebrated for their contempt of riches than for their astonishing exploits , appear little entitled to the praises with which they have been honoured by posterity . They reduced the Helotes , or inhabitants of Laconia , to ...
Side 28
... less unjust , than as legislators . Having heard of the immense wealth of Ptolemy , king of Egypt , they passed a law by which they " constituted themselves heirs of a living monarch , " and confiscated the dominions of an ally . * 46 ...
... less unjust , than as legislators . Having heard of the immense wealth of Ptolemy , king of Egypt , they passed a law by which they " constituted themselves heirs of a living monarch , " and confiscated the dominions of an ally . * 46 ...
Side 34
... less addicted to the passion for wealth , than the nations of antiquity and the middle age : but they have been more enlightened , or more fortunate in the direction which they have given to that passion ; and their wisdom or good ...
... less addicted to the passion for wealth , than the nations of antiquity and the middle age : but they have been more enlightened , or more fortunate in the direction which they have given to that passion ; and their wisdom or good ...
Side 35
... less ten- dency to enrich them with the spoils of their enemies , than to remove competitors and rivals , and to enjoy a monopoly , of which the ignorance of the times mag- nified the benefits , and kept the vices and inconve- niencies ...
... less ten- dency to enrich them with the spoils of their enemies , than to remove competitors and rivals , and to enjoy a monopoly , of which the ignorance of the times mag- nified the benefits , and kept the vices and inconve- niencies ...
Side 37
... less able to defend themselves , their grandeur shortly declined , and they were soon subdued . Both moralists and publicists have observed this phenomenon , and have thence inferred that wealth caused the fall of the great empires of ...
... less able to defend themselves , their grandeur shortly declined , and they were soon subdued . Both moralists and publicists have observed this phenomenon , and have thence inferred that wealth caused the fall of the great empires of ...
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