New MiscellaniesTicknor and Fields, 1860 - 375 páginas |
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... profits ? Did they not know that the adaptation of steam to machinery would have progressed just as slowly , had it not been a fact patent to babies that an engine is stronger than a horse ; and that if cotton , like wheat and beef ...
... profits ? Did they not know that the adaptation of steam to machinery would have progressed just as slowly , had it not been a fact patent to babies that an engine is stronger than a horse ; and that if cotton , like wheat and beef ...
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... profits " thereon . " But the facts , -the facts ! " cry the Protection- ists ; " look at our ledgers , our statistical proofs of loss and ruin . " Well , one man's figures are as good as another's , or indeed better , in this case ...
... profits " thereon . " But the facts , -the facts ! " cry the Protection- ists ; " look at our ledgers , our statistical proofs of loss and ruin . " Well , one man's figures are as good as another's , or indeed better , in this case ...
Página 155
... profit . It will be no more unprofitable , perhaps far more profitable , for us to get rid of our surplus capital by sinking it in uncertain agricultural speculations , which at all events will produce more food , than it is to sink it ...
... profit . It will be no more unprofitable , perhaps far more profitable , for us to get rid of our surplus capital by sinking it in uncertain agricultural speculations , which at all events will produce more food , than it is to sink it ...
Página 156
... profit ; and , therefore , the less likely they will be to go to war . Besides , Britain is the queen of the seas ; and even in the sharpest blockades of the late war , she found no difficulty in importing as much corn as you allowed ...
... profit ; and , therefore , the less likely they will be to go to war . Besides , Britain is the queen of the seas ; and even in the sharpest blockades of the late war , she found no difficulty in importing as much corn as you allowed ...
Página 161
... , if the political economists have , as some say , made an idol of profits , and set them up as the object of production , instead of asserting the maxi- mum of production to be in itself an absolute good THE AGRICULTURAL CRISIS . 161.
... , if the political economists have , as some say , made an idol of profits , and set them up as the object of production , instead of asserting the maxi- mum of production to be in itself an absolute good THE AGRICULTURAL CRISIS . 161.
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Página 317 - I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made : marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Página 285 - As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled.
Página 81 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies...
Página 117 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are : I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear, Till death, like sleep, might steal on me, And I might feel in the warm air My cheek grow cold, and hear the sea Breathe o'er my dying brain its last monotony.
Página 81 - Of mimic statesmen, and their merry king. No wit to flatter, left of all his store! No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends!
Página 117 - Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure. Others I see whom these surround ; Smiling they live, and call life pleasure ; To me that cup has been dealt in another measure.
Página 316 - Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
Página 198 - He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread : but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.
Página 114 - The mind which is immortal makes itself Requital for its good or evil thoughts, Is its own origin of ill and end, And its own place and time...
Página 291 - For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things which are made, even his eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.