The Political Economy of Natural LawLee and Shepard, 1894 - 305 páginas |
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abnormal abuses accumulated Adam Smith advance altruism American amount antagonism artificial average basis become business world capital cause cent character charity cities civilization co-operation coinage combination commerce competition confidence corporation currency direction dollars DUKE OF ARGYLL economic Edward Burton effort element employer enterprise EPICTETUS evolution existing fact force furnish gold harmony Henry Wood higher human ideal increase individual industry inherent interest investments Knights of Labor labor labor unions lative legislation less limited manual ment mental modern moral Natural Law natural monopolies natural principles nomic normal operation organizations panic political economy possible practical prejudice present prevailing production profit prosperity protection railroad railway rates regard regulation relations result selfish sentimental silver social socialistic society speculation supply and demand tariff tendency things thousand tion transactions true truth union ural vidual wages wealth
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Página 108 - No man is born into the world, whose work Is not born with him; there is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil!
Página 186 - Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Página 284 - That very law* which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.
Página 122 - But methinks he should stand in fear of fire, being burnt i' the hand for stealing of sheep. [Aside. CADE. Be brave then ; for your captain is brave, and vows reformation. There shall be, in England, seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny : the threehooped pot shall have ten hoops ; and I will make it felony to drink small beer: all the realm shall be in common, and in Cheapside shall my palfrey go to grass.
Página 196 - There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
Página 170 - Order is Heaven's first law; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense.
Página 144 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great ! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate...
Página 170 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden -flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Página 196 - Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it. Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed ; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed.
Página 122 - O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.