Lectures on History, and General Policy: To which is Prefixed, An Essay on a Course of Liberal Education for Civil and Active Life

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T. Tegg, 1826 - 598페이지
 

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425 페이지 - No regulation of commerce can increase the quantity of industry in any society beyond what its capital can maintain. It can only divert a part of it into a direction into which it might not otherwise have gone...
246 페이지 - the most perfect and absolute work that ever was written in any human science'.
399 페이지 - It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers, to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense, either by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign luxuries. They are themselves always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society.
493 페이지 - The accounts of all travellers, inconsistent in many other respects, agree in the low wages of labour, and in the difficulty which a labourer finds in bringing up a family in China. If by digging the ground a whole day he can get what will purchase a small quantity of rice in the evening, he is contented.
447 페이지 - The same care and toil that raise a dish of peas at Christmas would give bread to a whole family during six months.
158 페이지 - English, the proportion between the pound, the shilling, and the penny, seems to have been uniformly the same as at present, though the value of each has been very different. For in every country of the world, I believe, the avarice and injustice of princes and sovereign states...
204 페이지 - In the 1st, he gives a brief history of the world from the creation to the destruction of Jerusalem...
80 페이지 - Philander, it is certain that medals give a very great light to history, in confirming such passages as are true in old authors, in settling such as are told after different manners, and in recording such as have been omitted. In this case a cabinet of medals is a body of history.
29 페이지 - There are certain general principles; and rules of life and conduct, which always must be true, because they are conformable to the invariable nature of things.
333 페이지 - De minoribus rebus principes consultant ; de majoribus omnes : ita tamen, ut ea quoque, quorum penes plebem arbitrium est, apud principes pertractentur.

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