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ACOB became not a sovereign

Jby getting the birth right, 198

powerful, just as a farmer

does,

L.

19

James 1. (king of England) his ABOUR, much more owing

judgment of tyranny,

457

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to it than to nature, 361-3

Labour

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140

must be understood of silver
without the alloy,
Money, why so much was coined
in queen Elizabeth's time, and
after,
130
how it answers all things, 139
the denomination alters not
the intrinsic value,
ibid.
lessening its real value is worse
than clipping,
146
its being current only for its
weight, is the most effectual way
to stop the mischief of clipping,

147
it is necessary in proportion to
the plenty of it in neighbouring
nations,
148

it will always be of equal va-
lue with the same weight of
standard silver,

158
what causes the exportation
of it,
160
it ought not to be made
lighter, though silver were grown
dearer,
164
lessening it would be a gain
to money hoarders, but a loss to
others,

166
by making it one-fifth light-
er, creditors and landlords lose
20 per cent.
168

and labourers also lose by it,
unless they have one-fifth more
wages,
170
the change of its name will

not alter its value,

177
the insignificancy of lessen-
ing, explained by familiar simi-
litudes,
ibid.

if a crown of it (e. g.) be
called 75 pence, it will buy no
more goods than if it be called.
60 pence,
180
lowering its value will not
render it more generally use.
ful,
ibid.
it cannot be of the full price
of bullion, because of exporting
the latter,
184

the true raising it is by put.
ting more silver in it,

185

how it has been altered in

former times, 185,- -and the
most probable occasion of it, 187

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R.

REBELLION, the word some..
Rimes used for a lawful war,

473, 474
the best means to prevent
it, is good government,

ibid.
governors may be guilty
of it as well as the governed, ib.
Rents, the advantage of paying
them quarterly, or weekly, 27
the causes of their falling,
69, 70
Representatives of the people, how
sometimes very unequal, 432,-

433
corrupting them, or pre-
engaging the electors, tends to
dissolve the government, 470
Resistance of tyranny, when it is
lawful,
476
when it is lawful to be
ibid.
it is warrantable to use
it, for repelling illegal force, 482

434, &c.

used,

how and why it is some

times limited,

lic good,

437

the end of it is the pub-
ibid.

who may judge concern-
ing the right or wrong use of
it,
438

if people are injured by
it, they may appeal to heaven,
439

Price of things not always propor-
tionable to their usefulness,

4I

of foreign commodities ad
vances by being taxed, but that
of home ones falls,

58

the reason of this, ibid.
Property, how men come to have
361, 367
how it is naturally bound-

it,

ed,

368, &c.
in land and other things, at
first acquired by labour, ibid.
how this is a common ad-
vantage,
364
— it was at length settled by
law,
371
cannot be rightly taken
from any, without their con-
sent,
422
Providence, the bounty of it, in
making the most useful things
commonly the cheapest,

41

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BYE AND LAW, PRINTERS, ST. JOHN'S-SQUARE, CLERKENWELL.

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