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Page xxxvi
... increased his nervousness . He felt that it was take complete rest , and in the middle of June he went to where he stayed for seven weeks . Before going abroad Ru performed an act of self - denial which signified to himself secration of ...
... increased his nervousness . He felt that it was take complete rest , and in the middle of June he went to where he stayed for seven weeks . Before going abroad Ru performed an act of self - denial which signified to himself secration of ...
Page lxxxviii
... increase of its numbers so far as is consistent with its happiness ( § 3 ) . The material things which it is the object of political economy to produce and use are those which sustain and nourish the body or the soul , and no others ...
... increase of its numbers so far as is consistent with its happiness ( § 3 ) . The material things which it is the object of political economy to produce and use are those which sustain and nourish the body or the soul , and no others ...
Page xc
... increases ; if the money increases , but not the wealth , the worth of the money diminishes ( §§ 21-24 ) . The worth of a piece of money , which claims a given quantity of the national store , depends on cost and price . Cost is the ...
... increases ; if the money increases , but not the wealth , the worth of the money diminishes ( §§ 21-24 ) . The worth of a piece of money , which claims a given quantity of the national store , depends on cost and price . Cost is the ...
Page xcvii
... increase the amount of wealth - a position strangely inconsistent with his own fundamental conception whereby wealth can be increased by placing the right things in the right hands . In his later writings he is still more emphatic in ...
... increase the amount of wealth - a position strangely inconsistent with his own fundamental conception whereby wealth can be increased by placing the right things in the right hands . In his later writings he is still more emphatic in ...
Page 43
... increases his capital daily by an adherence to them . It is vain to bring forward tricks of logic , against the force of accomplished facts . Every man of business knows by ex- perience how money is made , and how it is lost . " Pardon ...
... increases his capital daily by an adherence to them . It is vain to bring forward tricks of logic , against the force of accomplished facts . Every man of business knows by ex- perience how money is made , and how it is lost . " Pardon ...
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Page 553 - What shall we do then? 11 He answereth, and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none ; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.
Page 446 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I ; In a cowslip's bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Page 446 - Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
Page 286 - Reverend sirs, For you there's rosemary and rue ; these keep Seeming and savour all the winter long : Grace and remembrance be to you both, And welcome to our shearing ! Pol.
Page 7 - These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.
Page 277 - And God is able to make all grace abound toward you ; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work : 9 As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor : his righteousness remaineth for ever.
Page 338 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously ; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Page 348 - The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
Page 50 - In fact, it may be discovered that the true veins of wealth are purple — and not in Rock, but in Flesh — perhaps even that the final outcome and consummation of all wealth is in the producing as many as possible full-breathed, bright-eyed, and happy-hearted human creatures.
Page 5 - But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny ? Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee. Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own ? Is thine eye evil, because I am good ? So the last shall be first, and the first last : for many be called, but few chosen.