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... writer's proper province . ' True , if the inquiry be as to the desirableness of wealth to the individual in a moral point of view . Not so , ( as we shall see hereafter the Author himself admits , ) if it relate to the desir- ableness ...
... writer's proper province . ' True , if the inquiry be as to the desirableness of wealth to the individual in a moral point of view . Not so , ( as we shall see hereafter the Author himself admits , ) if it relate to the desir- ableness ...
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... Writer to peruse Adam Smith , Say , Malthus , Ricardo , M'Culloch , and Mill . The list might have been extended a little further with propriety ; yet , with the exception of the first , all their works may be regarded , perhaps , as ...
... Writer to peruse Adam Smith , Say , Malthus , Ricardo , M'Culloch , and Mill . The list might have been extended a little further with propriety ; yet , with the exception of the first , all their works may be regarded , perhaps , as ...
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... Writer . The misery of the mass of the people in Great Britain is not un- known to , nor is similar misery unfelt in our own country . By the report of the Committee on the pauperism of the lower classes in Philadelphia last year ( 1829 ) ...
... Writer . The misery of the mass of the people in Great Britain is not un- known to , nor is similar misery unfelt in our own country . By the report of the Committee on the pauperism of the lower classes in Philadelphia last year ( 1829 ) ...
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... Writer prefaces his eulogy by some remarks on the importance of holding up to public view the ex- amples of such illustrious men , with a view to elevate and im- prove the tone of public feeling , and to repress the vulgar ap- ' petite ...
... Writer prefaces his eulogy by some remarks on the importance of holding up to public view the ex- amples of such illustrious men , with a view to elevate and im- prove the tone of public feeling , and to repress the vulgar ap- ' petite ...
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... prediction of Hume , cited by the Writer of the article on the Prospect of Reform , in the North Ame- rican Review . other cities which are counties of themselves ; with an D 2 On the Study of Political Economy . 35 .
... prediction of Hume , cited by the Writer of the article on the Prospect of Reform , in the North Ame- rican Review . other cities which are counties of themselves ; with an D 2 On the Study of Political Economy . 35 .
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Page 6 - Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence: the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.
Page 13 - The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too are, perhaps, always the same or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding expedients for removing difficulties which never occur.
Page 38 - Let your women keep silence in the churches : for it is not permitted unto them to speak ; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
Page 540 - The Lord of all, himself through all diffused, Sustains, and is the life of all that lives. Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God.
Page 52 - God by the weak pinions of our reason, but he has been pleased to descend to us , and what Socrates said of him, what Plato writ, and the rest of the Heathen philosophers of several nations, is all no more than the twilight of revelation, after the sun of it was set in the race of Noah.
Page 219 - It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Page 192 - Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too. Affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
Page 209 - ... and one even put on a military cockade, in order to incite his parishioners to come forward in the public cause. The genuine principles of our admirable constitution were thought by many to be in imminent peril ; yet all who wrote in their defence were exposed to obloquy. A learned prelate asserted, in the House of Lords, that " the people had nothing to do with " the laws but to obey them," and his sentiment was loudly applauded.
Page 348 - Lord, I thank thee that I am not as other men are, or even as this publican.
Page 245 - We have thought fit, by, and with, the Advice of our Privy Council, to...