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 страница |
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... reason , affluence , and felicity . Nothing more was required than such a basis of go- vernment to develope the full power , and cultivate to the utmost perfection , the human intellect . There was a grandeur , a noble exaltation in the ...
... reason , affluence , and felicity . Nothing more was required than such a basis of go- vernment to develope the full power , and cultivate to the utmost perfection , the human intellect . There was a grandeur , a noble exaltation in the ...
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... reason , why this object is not accomplished by human institutions , when it has been so bountifully provided for by the gracious mu- nificence of a paternal God . The slightest observation will satisfy the most pre- judiced and ...
... reason , why this object is not accomplished by human institutions , when it has been so bountifully provided for by the gracious mu- nificence of a paternal God . The slightest observation will satisfy the most pre- judiced and ...
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... impose on ignorance , and make that very ignorance the foundation of a title , which it presumes to style just . For , is it within the scope of human reason , and the instincts and principles 30 PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION .
... impose on ignorance , and make that very ignorance the foundation of a title , which it presumes to style just . For , is it within the scope of human reason , and the instincts and principles 30 PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION .
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... reason , and the instincts and principles of our nature , that a few tinsel beads , and burnished trinkets , should form a just purchase money for the state of Pennsylvania ? —But even that frail tenure was nominal , until the ...
... reason , and the instincts and principles of our nature , that a few tinsel beads , and burnished trinkets , should form a just purchase money for the state of Pennsylvania ? —But even that frail tenure was nominal , until the ...
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... reason . This spirit became more bold and fierce , with every accession of population , with each extension of our settlements , until the voice of royalty was lost in the murmurs of our forests , and the thunder of our cataracts . An ...
... reason . This spirit became more bold and fierce , with every accession of population , with each extension of our settlements , until the voice of royalty was lost in the murmurs of our forests , and the thunder of our cataracts . An ...
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