A Treatise on the Circumstances which Determine the Rate of Wages and Condition of the Labouring ClassesTrübner & Company, 1868 - 114 páginas |
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... feeling of insecurity , or some such modifying principle . But where these do not occur , or where their influence is not sufficient to countervail the superior productiveness of industry , the means of accumulation will be ...
... feeling of insecurity , or some such modifying principle . But where these do not occur , or where their influence is not sufficient to countervail the superior productiveness of industry , the means of accumulation will be ...
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... feeling that it would be imprudent to enter into matrimonial connections without having something like a rea- sonable prospect of being able to maintain the children that may be expected to spring from them . And marriages are , in ...
... feeling that it would be imprudent to enter into matrimonial connections without having something like a rea- sonable prospect of being able to maintain the children that may be expected to spring from them . And marriages are , in ...
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... feelings , and principles as other men . And being so , it is clear they will not generally be guilty of such in- considerate conduct . But , to lay aside reasoning , and appeal to facts , does not the state of industry in countries ...
... feelings , and principles as other men . And being so , it is clear they will not generally be guilty of such in- considerate conduct . But , to lay aside reasoning , and appeal to facts , does not the state of industry in countries ...
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... feels that he derives a tangible advantage from the right of private property , and that otherwise he should not be able peaceably to enjoy the fruits of his industry ; and he consequently becomes interested in its support , and in the ...
... feels that he derives a tangible advantage from the right of private property , and that otherwise he should not be able peaceably to enjoy the fruits of his industry ; and he consequently becomes interested in its support , and in the ...
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... feeling of enjoyment , than the richest merchant of New York . But are we , on that account , to set the savage on the same level as the civilised man ? or poverty on the same level as wealth ? It may be all very well so long as the ...
... feeling of enjoyment , than the richest merchant of New York . But are we , on that account , to set the savage on the same level as the civilised man ? or poverty on the same level as wealth ? It may be all very well so long as the ...
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Página 65 - We trust our health to the physician; our fortune, and sometimes our life and reputation, to the lawyer and attorney. Such confidence could not safely be reposed in people of a very mean or low condition. Their reward must be such, therefore, as may give them that rank in the society which so important a trust requires.
Página 31 - By necessaries I understand not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without.
Página 43 - The liberal reward of labour," says Adam Smith, " as it encourages the propagation, so it increases the industry, of the common people. The wages of labour are the encouragement of industry, which, like every other human quality, improves in proportion to the encouragement it receives.
Página 113 - An instructed and intelligent people, besides, are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one. They feel themselves, each individually, more respectable, and more likely to obtain the respect of their lawful superiors, and they are therefore more disposed to respect those superiors.
Página 66 - How extravagant soever the fees of counsellors-at-law may sometimes appear, their real retribution is never equal to this. Compute in any particular place, what is likely to be annually gained, and what is likely to be annually spent, by all the different workmen in any common...
Página 78 - The property which every man has in his own labor, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.
Página 43 - The liberal reward of labour, as it encourages the propagation, so it increases the industry of the common people. The wages of labour are the encouragement of industry, which, like every other human quality, improves in proportion to the encouragement it receives. A plentiful subsistence increases the bodily strength of the labourer, and the comfortable hope of bettering his condition, and of ending his days perhaps in ease and plenty, animates him to exert that strength to the utmost. Where wages...
Página 37 - The example of such individuals, or bodies of individuals, as submit quietly to have their wages reduced, and who are content if they get only the mere necessaries of life, ought never to be held up for public imitation. On the contrary, every thing should be done to make such apathy be esteemed disgraceful.