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Common terms and phrasesabundant acres action Adam Smith agriculture animal asso Attica become capital carbon carbonic acid centralization centres century cities cloth coal combination command commerce commodities compelled consequence constant constantly increasing consumer cotton cultivation decline desire diminished diminution distant earth effect effort enabled England equal everywhere exchange exhibited existence export extent fact faculties fellow-men fertile force former France furnished greater Greece grows growth improvement India Ireland islands Italy Jamaica land laws less Looking machinery manufactures material matter ment millions motion nature necessity obtain pass phosphoric acid plant political economy poor portion Portugal power of association produce proportion quantity rapid reader rent result return to labor rich river seen settlers slaves social science society soil sugar supply tendency tends things thousand tion tivation trade transportation tree Turkey vegetable viduality voluntary association whole wool yield Popular passagesPage 31 - The natural price of labor is that price which is necessary to enable the laborers, one with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution. Page 471 - To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers. Page 341 - Calcutta, while thirty millions of human beings were reduced to the extremity of wretchedness. They had been accustomed to live under tyranny, but never under tyranny like this. They found the little finger of the Company thicker than the loins of Surajah Dowlah. Page 21 - ... entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs: therefore it is good, before we enter into the former distribution, to erect and constitute one universal science, by the name of philosophia prima, primitive or summary philosophy, as the main and common way, before we come where the ways part and divide themselves; which science whether I should report as deficient or no, I stand doubtful. Page 471 - Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law; The wealth of climes, where savage nations roam, Pillaged from slaves to purchase slaves at home... Page xi - ... adverse to notions he may have previously formed for himself, or taken up, without examination, on the credit of others. Such an effort is, in fact, a commencement of that intellectual discipline which forms one of the most important ends of all science. It is the first movement of approach towards that state of mental purity which alone can fit us for a full and steady perception of moral beauty as well as physical adaptation. It is the " euphrasy and rue " with which we must " purge our sight"... Page 292 - An inland country, naturally fertile and easily cultivated, produces a great surplus of provisions beyond what is necessary for maintaining the cultivators, and on account of the expense of land carriage, and inconveniency of river navigation, it may frequently be difficult to send this surplus abroad. Page 420 - I believe that the laboring classes generally, in the manufacturing districts of this country, and especially in the iron and coal districts, are very little aware of the extent to which they are often indebted for their being employed at all, to the immense losses which their employers voluntarily incur in bad times, in order to destroy foreign competition, and to gain and keep possession of foreign markets. Page 421 - If the efforts of those who encourage the combinations to restrict the amount of labor and to produce strikes were to be successful for any length of time, the great accumulations of capital could no longer be made which enable a few of the most wealthy capitalists... Page 293 - ... money. The country supplies the town with the means of subsistence and the materials of manufacture. The town repays this supply by sending back a part of the manufactured produce to the inhabitants of the country. References to this bookFrom Google ScholarAn Economic Derivation Of The ℌgravity Law” Of Spatial Interaction*JH Niedercorn, BV Bechdolt - 1969 - Journal of Regional Science Distance and Human Interaction. A Migration StudyGunnar Olsson - 1965 - Geografiska Annaler. Series B. Human Geography Land-Use/Transport Interaction Models: Past and FutureAG Wilson - 1998 - Journal of Transport Economics and Policy International Regional ScienceChang-i Hua, Frank Porell - International Regional Science Review Bibliographic information
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