The Elements of Political EconomyGould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1841 - 406 |
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able accumulation advantage amount of labor annual bank benefit bushels capitalist cent cheaper circulating capital circulating medium cloth commodities consumed consumption cost cotton course create demand diminished division of labor duction duty effect employed employment enabled equal evident exchangeable value exerted expense exports fixed capital frequently gratify greater greatly Hence human industry hundred dollars important improvement inasmuch individual indolence instrument intellectual invest iron Julius Cæsar kind land laws less liable loan machinery manner manufactures means ment merchant millions mode moral nation natural agents necessary number of laborers obliged operation paid payment persons portion possess precious metals principles procure profit proportion purchase purpose quantity rate of profit receive render result rich rise sand dollars sell silver skill society specie steam engine sufficient supply Suppose thing thousand dollars tion transportation vidual wages wants wheat whole worth
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Strona 107 - Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men...
Strona 194 - And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
Strona iii - His object has been to write a book, which, any one who chooses may understand. He has, therefore, labored to express the general principles in the plainest manner possible, and to illustrate them by cases with which every person is familiar. It has been to the author a source of regret, that the course of discussion in the following pages, has, unavoidably, led him over ground which has frequently been the arena of political controversy.
Strona 79 - One of those boys, who loved to play with his companions, observed that, by tying a string from the handle of the valve which opened this communication, to another part of the machine, the valve would open and shut without his assistance, and leave him at liberty to divert himself with his playfellows.
Strona v - ... led him over ground which has frequently been the arena of political controversy. In all such cases, he has endeavored to state what seemed to him to be truth, without fear, favor, or affection. He is conscious to himself of no bias towards any party whatever, and he thinks that he who will read the whole work, will be convinced that he has been influenced by none.
Strona 74 - By his admirable contrivance, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility, for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility, with which it can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it.