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Page xi
... cultivation , unless the value of agricultural produce is increased ; this proposition is the basis of Ricardo's ... cultivated , and therefore agricultural produce has a tendency to become more expensive , as population advances ...
... cultivation , unless the value of agricultural produce is increased ; this proposition is the basis of Ricardo's ... cultivated , and therefore agricultural produce has a tendency to become more expensive , as population advances ...
Page xiv
... cultivated by associations of labourers - The recent emancipation of the serfs in Russia will extend upon a vast ... cultivate the most fertile land enjoy a beneficial interest— Fixed customs regulate the conditions of the metayer tenure ...
... cultivated by associations of labourers - The recent emancipation of the serfs in Russia will extend upon a vast ... cultivate the most fertile land enjoy a beneficial interest— Fixed customs regulate the conditions of the metayer tenure ...
Page xv
... cultivated by those who own it - Such a tenant- right would encourage farmers to devote more capital and energy to agriculture - Tenant - right in England can be supported by arguments similar to those which are urged in its favour in ...
... cultivated by those who own it - Such a tenant- right would encourage farmers to devote more capital and energy to agriculture - Tenant - right in England can be supported by arguments similar to those which are urged in its favour in ...
Page xix
... cultivated ; but if rents rise , the price of agricultural produce must rise The land which is on the margin of cultivation only pays a nominal rent ; and the price of agricultural produce must be always such as to give the ordinary ...
... cultivated ; but if rents rise , the price of agricultural produce must rise The land which is on the margin of cultivation only pays a nominal rent ; and the price of agricultural produce must be always such as to give the ordinary ...
Page xxvii
... cultivation - The absorption of the large additional supplies of gold without producing a great fall in its value affords conclusive evidence that the value of gold would have greatly risen if these additional supplies had not been ...
... cultivation - The absorption of the large additional supplies of gold without producing a great fall in its value affords conclusive evidence that the value of gold would have greatly risen if these additional supplies had not been ...
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Page 519 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities ; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.
Page 519 - The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person.
Page 520 - Thirdly, by the forfeitures and other penalties which those unfortunate individuals incur who attempt unsuccessfully to evade the tax, it may frequently ruin them, and thereby put an end to the benefit which the community might have received from the employment of their capitals.
Page 182 - Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
Page 551 - Every tax ought to be levied at the time, or in the manner in which it is most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it.