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Page 101
... Respecting which we have to note , first , that all such property is of doubtful advantage even to its possessor . Furniture tempting to indolence , sweet odours , and luscious food , are more or less injurious to health while jewels ...
... Respecting which we have to note , first , that all such property is of doubtful advantage even to its possessor . Furniture tempting to indolence , sweet odours , and luscious food , are more or less injurious to health while jewels ...
Page 131
... Respecting the modes and forms of destruction to which they lead , and , on the other hand , respecting the farther practical working of true polity , I hope to reason further in a following paper . ESSAY II THE VEINS OF WEALTH THE ...
... Respecting the modes and forms of destruction to which they lead , and , on the other hand , respecting the farther practical working of true polity , I hope to reason further in a following paper . ESSAY II THE VEINS OF WEALTH THE ...
Page 253
... respecting human life and duty , respecting which they all have but one voice , lie hidden behind these veils of phantasy , unsought and often unsuspected . I will gather carefully , out of Dante and Homer , what of this kind bears on ...
... respecting human life and duty , respecting which they all have but one voice , lie hidden behind these veils of phantasy , unsought and often unsuspected . I will gather carefully , out of Dante and Homer , what of this kind bears on ...
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accumulation artist become body bread catallactic Charybdis cheap commercial common consists Cornhill Magazine cost currency demand depends desire destruction economist Eleutheria employed evil examine exchange exchangeable value existing farther give given gold hands honour human Illth increase Italy J. S. Mill John Ruskin justice kind land less live luxury Mammon man's matter means merchant merely meristic mind modern moral nation nature necessary never noble painter Paul Veronese perfect perhaps persons pleasure Plutus political economy poor possession possible present principles produce proportion purchase quantity of labour question reader real property respecting rich sense servants slavery soul spend suppose things thought tion Titian true Unto this Last Verona wages wealth wholly wise word worth youth