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... depends on its relative human capacity . Similarly : The agreeableness of a thing depends not merely on its own likeableness , but on the number of people who can be got to like it . The relative agreeable- ness , and therefore ...
... depends on its relative human capacity . Similarly : The agreeableness of a thing depends not merely on its own likeableness , but on the number of people who can be got to like it . The relative agreeable- ness , and therefore ...
Page 234
... depends , therefore , not only on the cost of the commodity itself , but on its relation to the cost of every other attainable thing . Farther . The power of choice is also a relative one . It depends not merely on our own estimate of ...
... depends , therefore , not only on the cost of the commodity itself , but on its relation to the cost of every other attainable thing . Farther . The power of choice is also a relative one . It depends not merely on our own estimate of ...
Page 240
... depends upon its intelligibility and credit . Its intelligibility depends chiefly on the difficulty of forging anything like it ; -its credit much on national character , but ultimately always on the existence of substantial means of ...
... depends upon its intelligibility and credit . Its intelligibility depends chiefly on the difficulty of forging anything like it ; -its credit much on national character , but ultimately always on the existence of substantial means of ...
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