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... contain are made instrumental to the useful and ornamental arts of life . The use of money supersedes barter , and the traffic of commodities between neighbouring villages gradually swells into a trade , first domestic then foreign , of ...
... contain are made instrumental to the useful and ornamental arts of life . The use of money supersedes barter , and the traffic of commodities between neighbouring villages gradually swells into a trade , first domestic then foreign , of ...
Page 153
... contain at least six million square miles of cultivable land , which , if made productive only to the limited standard of British agriculture at present , would sustain fifteen hundred millions of people , or nearly double the whole ...
... contain at least six million square miles of cultivable land , which , if made productive only to the limited standard of British agriculture at present , would sustain fifteen hundred millions of people , or nearly double the whole ...
Page 175
... contain only 6050 acres of arable land , 3407 of pasture , and 698 of vines , being scarcely one acre and a quarter to each individual ; a degree of density surpassing that of any other part of Europe . Yet , there is nowhere to be seen ...
... contain only 6050 acres of arable land , 3407 of pasture , and 698 of vines , being scarcely one acre and a quarter to each individual ; a degree of density surpassing that of any other part of Europe . Yet , there is nowhere to be seen ...
Page 183
... contain be considerably less than formerly , it is rather to be attributed to the tyranny and op- pression of the governments under which they groan , and the consequent discouragement to agriculture , than to the losses which they ...
... contain be considerably less than formerly , it is rather to be attributed to the tyranny and op- pression of the governments under which they groan , and the consequent discouragement to agriculture , than to the losses which they ...
Page 224
... containing a masterly development and completion of view of which only an intimation could be given in the Essay . " " I fully agree with Mr. Sumner as to the bene- ficial effects which result from the principle of popu- lation , and ...
... containing a masterly development and completion of view of which only an intimation could be given in the Essay . " " I fully agree with Mr. Sumner as to the bene- ficial effects which result from the principle of popu- lation , and ...
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