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... Italy with splendid edifices , public and private : but at length so dwindled under the enervating influences of misgovernment , that what remained was not even suffi- cient to keep those edifices from decay . The strength and riches of ...
... Italy with splendid edifices , public and private : but at length so dwindled under the enervating influences of misgovernment , that what remained was not even suffi- cient to keep those edifices from decay . The strength and riches of ...
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... Italian opera singers , German governesses , French ballet dancers , & c . , are a source of wealth , as far as they go , to their respective countries , if they return thither . The petty states of Greece , especially the ruder and ...
... Italian opera singers , German governesses , French ballet dancers , & c . , are a source of wealth , as far as they go , to their respective countries , if they return thither . The petty states of Greece , especially the ruder and ...
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... Italians ' quickness of percep tion is shown in rapidly comprehending any new descriptions of labour put into their hands , in a power of quickly com- prehending the meaning of their em- ployer , of adapting themselves to new ...
... Italians ' quickness of percep tion is shown in rapidly comprehending any new descriptions of labour put into their hands , in a power of quickly com- prehending the meaning of their em- ployer , of adapting themselves to new ...
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... Italy in the Middle Ages , by no means enjoyed what any one with modern ideas would call security : the state of society was most unsettled and turbulent ; person and property articles , and others were obliged to pay a higher price to ...
... Italy in the Middle Ages , by no means enjoyed what any one with modern ideas would call security : the state of society was most unsettled and turbulent ; person and property articles , and others were obliged to pay a higher price to ...
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... Italy , had a good agriculture many generations before England , and theirs is still , as a whole , probably the best agriculture in the world . empirical skill , which is the effect of daily and close observation , peasant farmers ...
... Italy , had a good agriculture many generations before England , and theirs is still , as a whole , probably the best agriculture in the world . empirical skill , which is the effect of daily and close observation , peasant farmers ...
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Page 483 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.
Page 573 - Letting alone, in short, should be the general practice : every departure from it, unless required by some great good, is a certain evil.
Page 556 - The only case in which, on mere principles of political economy, protecting duties can be defensible, is when they are imposed temporarily (especially in a young and rising nation) in hopes of naturalizing a foreign industry, in itself perfectly suitable to the circumstances of the country.
Page 128 - If, therefore, the choice were to be made between Communism with all its chances, and the present state of society with all its sufferings and injustices; if the institution of private property...
Page 575 - Now any wellintentioned and tolerably civilized government may think without presumption that it does or ought to possess a degree of cultivation above the average of the community which it rules, and that it should therefore be capable of offering better education and better instruction to the people, than the greater number of them would spontaneously demand. Education, therefore, is one of those things which it is admissible in principle that a government should provide for the people.