The Works of John Locke, Volume 5Thomas Tegg, 1828 - Philosophy, Modern |
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... half the customers , and there are two buyers for one seller . It is in vain , therefore , to go about effectually to reduce the price of interest by a law ; and you may as rationally hope to set a fixed rate upon the hire of houses ...
... half the customers , and there are two buyers for one seller . It is in vain , therefore , to go about effectually to reduce the price of interest by a law ; and you may as rationally hope to set a fixed rate upon the hire of houses ...
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... half so much will do it . Riches do not consist in having more gold and silver , but in having more in proportion than the rest of the world , or than our neighbours , whereby we are enabled to pro- cure to ourselves a greater plenty of ...
... half so much will do it . Riches do not consist in having more gold and silver , but in having more in proportion than the rest of the world , or than our neighbours , whereby we are enabled to pro- cure to ourselves a greater plenty of ...
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... half our trade ) at six per cent . If we consume one moiety , and make still ten per cent . per ann . return of the other million , the kingdom gets forty thousand pounds per ann . though it pay sixty and raising the Value of Money . 15.
... half our trade ) at six per cent . If we consume one moiety , and make still ten per cent . per ann . return of the other million , the kingdom gets forty thousand pounds per ann . though it pay sixty and raising the Value of Money . 15.
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... half the yearly revenue of the land to be ne- cessarily employed in paying of rent ; for to say that some tenants break , and pay not their rent at all , and others pay not till two , three , four , five , six , & c . months after ...
... half the yearly revenue of the land to be ne- cessarily employed in paying of rent ; for to say that some tenants break , and pay not their rent at all , and others pay not till two , three , four , five , six , & c . months after ...
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... half - yearly , there are twenty - six pounds to be employed in the payment of it in one entire sum , ( if it be paid well , and if it be not paid well , for want of so much money to be spared to that purpose , there is so much want of ...
... half - yearly , there are twenty - six pounds to be employed in the payment of it in one entire sum , ( if it be paid well , and if it be not paid well , for want of so much money to be spared to that purpose , there is so much want of ...
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Page 230 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Page 299 - Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.
Page 232 - Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands ; thou hast put all things under his feet : All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field ; The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
Page 394 - MEN being, as has been said, by nature all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.
Page 340 - To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man.
Page 354 - The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his. Whatsoever then he removes out of the state that nature hath provided and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property.
Page 246 - Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Page 339 - Political power, then, I take to be a right of making laws -with penalties of death, and consequently all less penalties, for the regulating and preserving of property, and of employing the force of the community in the execution of such laws, and in the defence of the commonwealth from foreign injury; and all this only for the public good.
Page 314 - And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly, and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.
Page 418 - ... the obligations of the law of Nature cease not in society, but only in many cases are drawn closer, and have, by human laws, known penalties annexed to them to enforce their observation. Thus the law of Nature stands as an eternal rule to all men, legislators as well as others.