THE WORKS OF JOHN LOCKE1801 |
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... . He that would make the lighter scale preponderate to the opposite , will not so soon do it , by adding increase of new weight to the emptier , emptier , as if he took out of the heavier 12 Considerations of the lowering of Interest ,
... . He that would make the lighter scale preponderate to the opposite , will not so soon do it , by adding increase of new weight to the emptier , emptier , as if he took out of the heavier 12 Considerations of the lowering of Interest ,
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... weight , to enable us to reckon what the proportion of scarcity and vent of one com- modity is to another . For supposing , as before , that half an ounce of silver would last year exchange for one bushel of wheat , or for 15lb . weight ...
... weight , to enable us to reckon what the proportion of scarcity and vent of one com- modity is to another . For supposing , as before , that half an ounce of silver would last year exchange for one bushel of wheat , or for 15lb . weight ...
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... weight of lead , as half an ounce of silver , for one - tenth of a bushel of wheat , and no more . So that if you say that money now is nine - tenths less worth than it was the former year , you must say so of lead too , and all other ...
... weight of lead , as half an ounce of silver , for one - tenth of a bushel of wheat , and no more . So that if you say that money now is nine - tenths less worth than it was the former year , you must say so of lead too , and all other ...
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... weight per annum , or nothing at all : it being only the change of the quantity of wheat to its vent , supposing we have still the same sum of money in the kingdom ; or else the change of the quantity of our money in the kingdom ...
... weight per annum , or nothing at all : it being only the change of the quantity of wheat to its vent , supposing we have still the same sum of money in the kingdom ; or else the change of the quantity of our money in the kingdom ...
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... weight and denomination in coinage . 9. Money , whilst the same quantity of it is passing up and down the kingdom in trade , is really a standing measure of the falling and rising value of other things , in reference to one another ...
... weight and denomination in coinage . 9. Money , whilst the same quantity of it is passing up and down the kingdom in trade , is really a standing measure of the falling and rising value of other things , in reference to one another ...
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Page 394 - Men being, as has been said, by nature all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.
Page 353 - Though the earth and all inferior creatures be common to all men, yet every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his.
Page 299 - Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.
Page 246 - Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children, and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Page 414 - And so, whoever has the legislative or supreme power of any commonwealth, is bound to govern by established standing laws, promulgated and known to the people, and not by extemporary decrees, by indifferent and upright judges, who are to decide controversies by those laws; and to employ the force of the community at home only in the execution of such laws, or abroad to prevent or redress foreign injuries and secure the community from inroads and invasion. And all this to be directed to no other end...
Page 389 - Hence it is evident that absolute monarchy, -which by some men is counted the only government in the world, is indeed inconsistent -with civil society, and so can be no form of civil government at all.
Page 232 - Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands ; thou hast put all things under his feet : All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field ; The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
Page 354 - The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his. Whatsoever then he removes out of the state that nature hath provided and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property.
Page 412 - The great and chief end, therefore, of men's uniting into commonwealths, and putting themselves under government, is the preservation of their property; to which in the state of nature there are many things wanting.
Page 354 - For this labour being the unquestionable property of the labourer, no man but he can have a right to what that is once joined to, at least where there is enough and as good left in common for others.