The Principles of Population: And Their Connection with Human Happiness, Volume 2W. Blackwood and sons, 1840 - 544 pages |
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... existence at the instant from a view to his ultimate advantage . This change in the human character , by far the most important which occurs in the history of his species , the division and appropriation of land , is mainly instrumental ...
... existence at the instant from a view to his ultimate advantage . This change in the human character , by far the most important which occurs in the history of his species , the division and appropriation of land , is mainly instrumental ...
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... existence . " * Land in Ceylon is so much subdivided , and tenaciously held , that an inheritance sometimes consists only of the 34th of a single tree . † The same principle is mentioned by Mr Park , as influencing , in the strongest ...
... existence . " * Land in Ceylon is so much subdivided , and tenaciously held , that an inheritance sometimes consists only of the 34th of a single tree . † The same principle is mentioned by Mr Park , as influencing , in the strongest ...
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... existence . The effect is the same whe- ther these exactions come from a burdensome system of taxation , the incursions of a hostile Rajah , a rapa- cious landlord , or an oppressive despot . In either case , the cultivator is allowed ...
... existence . The effect is the same whe- ther these exactions come from a burdensome system of taxation , the incursions of a hostile Rajah , a rapa- cious landlord , or an oppressive despot . In either case , the cultivator is allowed ...
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... existence.§ Baron de Stael , 85 . Parl . Proc . 1826 . + Mem . du Duc de Gaeta , ii . 336 . No less than 206,000 persons have right to dividends under L.50 a year ; of whom 140,000 are under L. 10. — Parl . Return for 1837 ; Porter's ...
... existence.§ Baron de Stael , 85 . Parl . Proc . 1826 . + Mem . du Duc de Gaeta , ii . 336 . No less than 206,000 persons have right to dividends under L.50 a year ; of whom 140,000 are under L. 10. — Parl . Return for 1837 ; Porter's ...
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... existence of serious political evils , when the peasan- try of the country begin to assemble in arms . This want of foresight , which is so peculiarly the characteristic of the poor in great cities , produces the most fatal effects ...
... existence of serious political evils , when the peasan- try of the country begin to assemble in arms . This want of foresight , which is so peculiarly the characteristic of the poor in great cities , produces the most fatal effects ...
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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...