A Letter to the Electors of Westminster, Tema 1J. Hearne, 1850 - 100 páginas |
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... produce of domestic industry , replaces too , by every such operation , two distinct capitals : but one of them only is em- ployed in supporting domestic industry . The capital which sends British goods to Portugal , and brings back ...
... produce of domestic industry , replaces too , by every such operation , two distinct capitals : but one of them only is em- ployed in supporting domestic industry . The capital which sends British goods to Portugal , and brings back ...
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... produce more than 14,000,000 of quarters of wheat . * ARISTOCRAT . Mr. McCulloch , Madam , is so pains - taking that I think you may quite rely on the correctness of his figures . PROTECTION . But it seems to me incredible . 55,000 men ...
... produce more than 14,000,000 of quarters of wheat . * ARISTOCRAT . Mr. McCulloch , Madam , is so pains - taking that I think you may quite rely on the correctness of his figures . PROTECTION . But it seems to me incredible . 55,000 men ...
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... produced by 55,000 men , and , if you please , adding 5000 more for the manufacture of the machinery those men employ - together 60,000 - you can buy as much wheat as is produced by 600,000 English- men . ARISTOCRAT . Most assuredly I ...
... produced by 55,000 men , and , if you please , adding 5000 more for the manufacture of the machinery those men employ - together 60,000 - you can buy as much wheat as is produced by 600,000 English- men . ARISTOCRAT . Most assuredly I ...
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... produced by our exquisite machinery with the labour of less than 60,000 men ; thus the exchange of any given money value of cotton for corn displaces the labour of ten adult males by the labour of one ; and those ten men so displaced ...
... produced by our exquisite machinery with the labour of less than 60,000 men ; thus the exchange of any given money value of cotton for corn displaces the labour of ten adult males by the labour of one ; and those ten men so displaced ...
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... produce of our own labour , and annihilate , by unfair competition , our working classes , whom we are bound by every tie to pro- tect . We raise the labour of foreign nations on the ruins of our own ; and brag of bringing down our ...
... produce of our own labour , and annihilate , by unfair competition , our working classes , whom we are bound by every tie to pro- tect . We raise the labour of foreign nations on the ruins of our own ; and brag of bringing down our ...
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Adam Smith agricultural agst Albion ARISTOCRAT assure Belle France Bill of 19 Bouncing Bess British farmer British industry capital cent cheap bread cheap foreign corn classes Cobden competition Corn Laws cracy cries dear Debt displace Don Whiskerandos Electors of Westminster employed England exchange exploded sophism Exports fair feel fellow fixed duty Foreign Bottoms foreign commodities foreign trade Frau Zollverein free importation friends give heart Jonathan Joyeuse Grisette labour land Letter look Lord John Lord John Russell low price machinery Madam male adults mean merry England Nation neutral markets never peace Peelites Petite Belge Philanthropy political poor population Porter's Progress Pray produce PROTECTION Protectionist Proudhon prove quarters of wheat reduce regard revenue ruin scarcely selfish sigh Sir James Graham Sir Robert Peel smiling Spitalfields statesmen sure surplus tail taxed tell throw Tiffin truth undersell wages Wealth Whigs whole
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Página 57 - Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that. You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Página 26 - The capital which sends Scotch manufactures to London, and brings back English corn and manufactures to Edinburgh, necessarily replaces by етегу such operation, two British capitals which had both been employed in the agriculture or manufactures of Great Britain. The capital employed in purchasing foreign goods for home consumption, when this purchase is made with the produce of domestic industry, replaces too, by every such operation, two distinct capitals; but one of them only is employed...
Página 67 - Th' insulting tyrant, prancing o'er the field Strow'd with Rome's citizens, and drench'd in slaughter, His horse's hoofs wet with Patrician blood ! Oh, Portius ! is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man, Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin...
Página 75 - ... Spring shall pour his showers, as oft he wont> And bathe thy breathing tresses, meekest Eve ! While Summer loves to sport Beneath thy lingering light : While sallow Autumn fills thy lap with leaves, Or Winter yelling through the troublous air, Affrights thy shrinking train, And rudely rends thy robes : So long, regardful of thy quiet rule, Shall Fancy, Friendship, Science, smiling Peace, Thy gentlest influence own, And love thy favourite name ! ODE TO PEACE.
Página 26 - The capital employed in purchasing foreign goods for home consumption, when this purchase is made with the produce of domestic industry, replaces, too, by every such operation, two distinct capitals, but one of them only is employed in supporting domestic industry. The capital which sends British goods to Portugal, and brings back Portuguese goods to Great Britain, replaces by every such operation only one British capital. The other is a Portuguese one. Though the returns, therefore, of the foreign...
Página 55 - ... renewed. But even in peace, the habitual dependence on foreign supply is dangerous. We place the subsistence of our own population, not only at the mercy of foreign powers, but also on their being able to spare as much corn as we may want to buy.
Página 23 - His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Página 72 - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
Página 55 - I admit, that if unlimited foreign import, which the war had suspended, were now again allowed, bread might be a little, though a very little cheaper, than it now is, for a year or two. But what would follow ? The small farmer would be ruined ; improvements would...
Página 75 - And the place of the vineyard that thy right hand hath planted: and the branch that thou madest so strong for thyself.