The elements of political economy. With revisions and additions

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Page 63 - Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men...
Page 123 - And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
Page 40 - By his admirable contrivance, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility, for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility, with which it can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it.
Page 43 - One of those boys, who loved to play with his companions, observed that, by tying a string from the handle of the valve which opened this communication, to another part of the machine, the valve would open and shut without his assistance, and leave him at liberty to divert himself with his playfellows.
Page 40 - It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before it ; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge anchors, cut steel into ribbons, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves.
Page 150 - The gold and silver money which circulates in any country, and by means of which the produce of its land and...
Page 45 - The second section consisted of seven or eight persons of considerable acquaintance with mathematics, whose duty it was to convert into numbers the formulae put into their hands by the first section, and then to deliver out these numbers to the members of the third section, and to receive from them the finished calculations.
Page 40 - It is our improved steam-engine that has fought the battles of Europe, and exalted and sustained, through the late tremendous contest, the political greatness of our land. It is the same great power which now enables us to pay the interest of our debt, and to maintain the arduous struggle in which we are still engaged, [1819], with the skill and capital of countries less oppressed with taxation.
Page 73 - ... than any one else. 6. Hence, they tend to insubordination. For, if the rich are under obligation to support the poor, why not to support them better; nay, why not to support them as well as themselves. Hence, the more provision there is of this kind, the greater will be the liability to collision between the two classes. If this be so, we see, that in order to accomplish the designs of our Creator in this respect, and thus present the strongest inducement to industry, 1. Property should be universally...
Page 150 - The judicious operations of banking, by substituting paper in the room of a great part of this gold and silver, enable the country to convert a great part of this dead stock into active and productive stock ; into stock which produces something to the country.

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