The Industrial Revolution: Being the Parts Entitled Parliamentary Colbertism and Laissez Faire, Reprinted from The Growth of English Industry and Commerce in Modern TimesThe University Press, 1908 - 886 pages |
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Autres éditions - Tout afficher
The Industrial Revolution: Being the Parts Entitled Parliamentary Colbertism ... William Cunningham Affichage du livre entier - 1908 |
The Industrial Revolution: Being the Parts Entitled Parliamentary Colbertism ... William Cunningham Affichage du livre entier - 1908 |
The Industrial Revolution: Being the Parts Entitled Parliamentary Colbertism ... William Cunningham Affichage du livre entier - 1908 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
able Adam Smith advantage agriculture appears Arthur Young attempt Bank Bank of England bar iron Brit British capital capitalist carried caused Charles II cloth clothiers coal colonies colonists commerce Company considerable corn cotton cultivation Davenant Defoe difficulties domestic system East India economic effect eighteenth century employed employers employment enclosure England English export factures farming favour foreign French Government Hist Hostmen House of Commons husbandry important improvement increased industry interest introduced Ireland Irish kingdom labour land linen London Lord machinery maintained manu manufacture ment merchants Methuen Treaty Navigation Navigation Acts organised parishes Parl Parliament plantations political poor practice profitable rates regard render Reports scheme Scotland seventeenth century small farmers success supply tillage tion Tories trade wages wealth Wealth of Nations weavers West Whigs Wiltshire wool woollen workhouse Yorkshire
Fréquemment cités
Page 747 - Any general character, from the best to the worst, from the most ignorant to the most enlightened, may be given to any community, even to the world at large, by the application of proper means; which means are to a great extent at the command and under the control of those who have influence in the affairs of men.
Page 825 - The school-boy whips his taxed top — the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle on a taxed road ; — and the dying Englishman pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent.
Page 824 - ... that comes from abroad, or is grown at home— taxes on the raw material — taxes on every fresh value that is added to...
Page 591 - The wealth of a neighbouring nation, however, though dangerous in war and politics, is certainly advantageous in trade. In a state of hostility it may enable our enemies to maintain fleets and armies superior to our own, but in a state of peace and commerce it must likewise enable them to exchange with us to a greater value, and to afford a better market, either for the immediate produce of our own industry or for whatever is purchased with that produce.
Page 594 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Page 825 - ... paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately taxed from two to ten per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel ; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble ; and he is then gathered to his fathers, — to be taxed no more.
Page 534 - The Carriage of Grain, Coals, Merchandize, etc. is in general conducted with little more than half the Number of Horses with which it formerly was. Journies of Business are performed with more than double Expedition. Improvements in Agriculture keep pace with those of Trade. Everything wears the Face of Dispatch ; every Article...
Page 824 - Taxes on everything on earth, and the waters under the earth ; on everything that comes from abroad, or is grown at home. Taxes on the raw material ; taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man. Taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite, and the drug that restores him to health ; on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal ; on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice; on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribands of the...
Page 844 - Buffalo, which is a creation of yesterday. But it is not in the difference between the larger towns on the two sides that we shall find the best evidence of our own inferiority...
Page 714 - When the Gallon Loaf of Second Flour, weighing 8 Ib. 11 oz. shall cost Is. then every poor and industrious man shall have for his own support 3s. weekly, either produced by his own or his family's labour, or an allowance from the poor rates, and for the support of his wife and every other of his family, Is.