The Principles of Population: And Their Connection with Human Happiness, Volume 2W. Blackwood and sons, 1840 - 544 pages |
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... British agriculture - Important effect of Corn Laws in equalizing prices — Example of the effect of agricultural ... Islands of the South Seas - No dangers , therefore , to be anticipated from over - increase in any quarter of the Globe ...
... British agriculture - Important effect of Corn Laws in equalizing prices — Example of the effect of agricultural ... Islands of the South Seas - No dangers , therefore , to be anticipated from over - increase in any quarter of the Globe ...
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... British islands , the strong- est proof of the same principles may be discovered . For above two centuries and a - half , a system of legal relief has been established , and acted upon throughout the whole of England : and in the last ...
... British islands , the strong- est proof of the same principles may be discovered . For above two centuries and a - half , a system of legal relief has been established , and acted upon throughout the whole of England : and in the last ...
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... Britain , that succour which is denied them by the institutions of their native land . It is amidst the indigence ... island . The Scottish Statute Book contains no less than nine dif- ferent statutes for the relief of the poor , and the ...
... Britain , that succour which is denied them by the institutions of their native land . It is amidst the indigence ... island . The Scottish Statute Book contains no less than nine dif- ferent statutes for the relief of the poor , and the ...
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... Britain , probably not exceeded in Europe , if Ireland be excepted , but that this destitu- tion is the result of ... Islands , 57 , 64. Dr Alison's Reply to Mr Monypenny , 19 . † Ante , II . 121 , where the tables are given . Alison ...
... Britain , probably not exceeded in Europe , if Ireland be excepted , but that this destitu- tion is the result of ... Islands , 57 , 64. Dr Alison's Reply to Mr Monypenny , 19 . † Ante , II . 121 , where the tables are given . Alison ...
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... England is still more unfavourable to this part of the island ; for , while in seven years pre- ceding 1839 , the committals for serious offences in the former country had advanced from 2451 to 3446 , or increased a half , they have ...
... England is still more unfavourable to this part of the island ; for , while in seven years pre- ceding 1839 , the committals for serious offences in the former country had advanced from 2451 to 3446 , or increased a half , they have ...
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advantage afford agricultural arises Britain British empire British islands British manufactures British navy burden cause charity church circumstances cities civilisation colonies comfort commercial consequence Corn Laws corruption crime cultivation depravity desire destitute distress duties effect empire England enjoyments equally established Europe evil existence exports foreign grain France funds Glasgow globe growth habits human important improvement increase indigent individual industry influence inhabitants instruction interest Ireland islands labour labouring classes landed property legal relief lower orders maintain mankind means ment millions misery moral nature necessity nerally never Norway object opulence passion period permanent persons Poland poor laws population present principle produce progress proportion proprietors prosperity proved Prussia quarters race racter ranks reciprocity system religion religious render rience Scotland society South Wales species subsistence Sweden tendency tion tivation trade United Kingdom vast vice Voluntary wants wealth whole
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Page 517 - Their starting-point is different, and their courses are not the same; yet each of them seems to be marked out by the will of Heaven to sway the destinies of half the globe.
Page 398 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Page 516 - There are at the present time, two great nations in the world which seem to tend towards the same end, although they started from different points; I allude to the Russians and the Americans.
Page 399 - Come, bright Improvement ! on the car of Time, And rule the spacious world from clime to clime ; Thy handmaid arts shall every wild explore, Trace every wave, and culture every shore.
Page 507 - ... are continually in operation throughout the country, they ultimately impart an irresistible impulse to the national character. The American, taken as a chance specimen of his countrymen, must then be a man of singular warmth in his desires, enterprising, fond of adventure, and above all of innovation. The same bent is manifest in all that he does ; he introduces it into his political laws, his religious doctrines, his theories of social economy, and his domestic occupations ; he bears it with...
Page 510 - This gradual and continuous progress of the European race towards the Rocky Mountains has the solemnity of a providential event ; it is like a deluge of men rising unabatedly, and daily driven onward by the hand of God.
Page 506 - America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion, and every change seems an improvement.
Page 385 - Gulf of Mexico, and from the Mississippi to the Atlantic Ocean, there is not one pauper to be found. Such are the customers whom America presents to us. The rapid increase of their culture and population too, doubling in twenty-five or thirty years, must necessarily augment this demand for our goods in the same proportion. Circumstanced as the two countries are, I use no figure of speech, but speak the simple fact when I say, that not an axe falls in the woods of America which does not put in motion...
Page 268 - No ! we will have her to exalt her mitred front in courts and parliaments. We will have her mixed throughout the whole mass of life, and blended with all the classes of society. The people of England will...
Page 512 - The time will therefore come when one hundred and fifty millions of men will be living in North America,* equal in condition, the progeny of one race, owing their origin to the same cause, and preserving the same civilization, the same language, the same religion, the same habits, the same manners, and imbued with the same opinions, propagated under the same forms. The rest is uncertain, but this is certain ; and it is a fact new to the world — a fact fraught with such portentous consequences as...