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acquired advantage amount arrangement Austria balance of trade balance-spring bank Bank of England bank-notes banker become benefit bill Britain called capital capitalist civilised cloth commerce commodities debt demand depreciated currency division of labour employed employer employment England evil exertion exports give gold hands human important improve increase individual industry instance interest invention John Thomson kind labour large number less machine machinery mankind manner manufactures means merchant nations nature neighbours notes obtain occupation owner paid perhaps person political economy poor possess pounds privileges produce profit prohibit protection railway railway mania regulations require rich Richard Smith Russia savage savage nations Scotland seen sell shew shewn shillings skill society sometimes sovereign supply suppose taxes things tion trade uncon valuable wages wants wealth William Simpson workmen worth
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Page 80 - One man draws out the wire, another straightens it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head: to make the head requires two or three distinct operations ; to put it on, is a peculiar business; to whiten the pins is another; it is even a trade by itself to put them into the paper; and the important business of making a pin is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct operations, which, in some manufactories, are all performed by distinct...
Page 14 - And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together : for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.
Page 80 - ... it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head; to make the head requires two or three distinct operations; to put it on is a peculiar business, to whiten the pins is another; it is even a trade by itself to put them into the paper; and the important business of making a pin is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct operations, which, in some manufactories, are all performed by distinct hands, though in others the same man will sometimes...
Page 85 - And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Page 85 - AND it came to pass on the second sabbath after the first, that he went through the corn fields; and his disciples plucked the ears of corn, and did eat, rubbing them in their hands.
Page 50 - ECONOMY x may be defined to be the science of the laws which regulate the production, accumulation, distribution, and consumption of those articles or products that are necessary, useful, or agreeable to man, and which at the same time possess exchangeable value.
Page 3 - While God has given man the gift of life, he has also given him the capacity to support that life, provided he duly employs the means. This capacity for exertion, however, would be useless without liberty to use it. Accordingly, every human being, of whatever colour or country, has, by a law of nature, the property of his own person. He belongs to himself. In ordinary language, man is born free. This freedom he is not at liberty to sell or assign. Neither, in justice, can any one take away his personal...