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5th Jan acquired advantage afford agriculture amount applied arises beneficial Bishop Berkeley bolls Britain capital capitalist cheap soups chiefly circulation circumstances civilized classes climate clothing comfort commodities consequence considerable considered cultivation desirable discovery dities division of labour effect employed employment enjoyment enlarged equal evils exchange exertion expense exported extent favour fertile flax former Fustic geometrical progression greater important improvement income increase industry inequality intestacy kind land less limited machinery Malthus mankind manual labour Manufactures Marischal College materials means measure ment metals millions nation nature necessary object obtained occasion operations population portion possession present price of corn procure produce profit progress promote proportion proprietor purposes quantity racter raise ranks recourse regard render rent require requisite restrictions Saltpetre Scotland share society soil Spelter subsistence sufficient superior supply tion tithe tivated United Kingdom wages wants wealth whole
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Page 69 - Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen ; for we be brethren. Is not the whole land before thee ? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 133 - In the first twenty-five years the population would be twenty-two millions, and the food being also doubled, the means of subsistence would be equal to this increase. In the next twe.ntyfive years the population would be forty-four millions, and the means of subsistence only equal to the support of thirty-three millions.
Page 67 - ... disturbances, the universal law of almost every nation (which is a kind of secondary law of nature) has either given the dying person a power of continuing his property, by disposing of his possessions by will; or, in case he neglects to dispose of it, or is not permitted to make any disposition at all, the municipal law of the country then steps in, and declares who shall be the successor, representative, or heir of the deceased...
Page 67 - A man's children or nearest relations are usually about him on his death-bed, and are the earliest witnesses of his decease. They become therefore generally the next immediate occupants, till at length in process of time this frequent usage ripened into general law.
Page xiv - The evidence that there is a Being, all-powerful, wise, and good, by whom every thing exists ; and particularly, to obviate difficulties regarding the wisdom and goodness of the Deity ; and this, in the first place, from considerations independent of written revelation, and, in the second place, from the Revelation of the Lord Jesus ; and from the whole, to point out the inferences most necessary for and useful to mankind.
Page 55 - ... corn, when considered only in this point of view, will be different on almost every different field. How then, it may be asked, can its intrinsic value be ascertained over a vast tract of country, possessing a diversity of soils, of various degrees of fertility? and how shall matters be so managed, as that all the rearers of it shall draw nearly the same price for their grain, and have nearly the same profits? "All this is effected in the easiest and most natural manner, by means of rent. Rent...
Page 105 - When there is a necessity to import goods which a nation cannot be without, although such goods are chiefly purchased with money, it cannot be accounted a bad trade, as our trade to Norway and other parts, from whence are imported naval stores, and materials for building.
Page 67 - ... a man ceases to be, he ceases to have any dominion : else, if he had a right to dispose of his acquisitions one moment beyond his life, he would also have a right to direct their disposal for a million of ages after him ; which would be highly absurd and inconvenient. All property must therefore cease upon death, considering men as absolute individuals, and unconnected with civil society...
Page 105 - ... and other goods brought from Turkey. ' V. Foreign materials, wrought up here into such goods as would otherwise be imported ready manufactured, is a means of saving money to the nation ; such is the importation of hemp, flax, and raw silk ; it is therefore to be wondered at, that these...
Page 67 - For, naturally speaking, the instant a man ceases to be, he ceases to have any dominion : else, if he had a right to dispose of his acquisitions one moment beyond his life, he would -also have a right to direct their disposal for a million of ages after him ; which would be highly absurd and inconvenient.