 ... contented with the cheapest food, the people are exposed to the greatest vicissitudes and miseries. They have no place of refuge from calamity ; they cannot seek safety in a lower station ; they are already so low, that they can fall no lower. On...  The Gorgon [ed. by J. Wade]. - Page 155edited by - 1818Full view - About this book
 | 1820 - 590 pages
...so low, that they can fall no lower. On any deficiency of the chief articles of their subsistence, there are few substitutes of which they can avail themselves; and dearth to them is attended with almost all the evils of famine. ' Nor is this all : — Men placed in such... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1817 - 680 pages
...already so low, that they can fall no lower. On any deficiency of the chief article of their subsistence, there are few substitutes of which they can avail themselves, and dearth to them is attended with almost all the evils of famine." (100 — 102.) Mr. Preston, in his Observations... | |
 | 1820 - 562 pages
...so low, that they can fall no lower. On any deficiency of the chief articles of their subsistence, there are few substitutes of which they can avail themselves ; and dearth to them is attended with almost all the evils of famine." Nor is this all : — Men placed in such... | |
 | David Ricardo - Classical school of economics - 1821 - 566 pages
...already so low, that they can fall no lower. On any deficiency of the chief article of their subsistence, there are few substitutes of which they can avail themselves, and dearth to them is attended with almost all the evils of famine. In the natural advance of society, the wages... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1824 - 884 pages
...already so low, that they can fall no lower. On any deficiency of the chief article of their subsistence, there are few substitutes of which they can avail themselves, and dearth to them is attended with almost all the evils of famine." The corn law of 1804, the first framed subsequently... | |
 | J. C. Ross - Economics - 1827 - 486 pages
...already so low that they can fall no lower. On any deficiency of the chief articles of their subsistence, there are few substitutes of which they can avail themselves, and dearth to them is attended with almost all the evils of famine. In the natural advance of society, the wages... | |
 | Edwin Lankester - Food - 1832 - 416 pages
...already so low, that they can fall no lower. On any deficiency of the chief article of their subsistence, there are few substitutes of which they can avail themselves, and dearth to them is attended with almost all the evils of famine." If a scarcity of food should be experienced... | |
 | 1835 - 858 pages
...already so low (hat they can fall no lower. On any deGciency oí Ihe chief articles of their subsistence, there are few substitutes of which they can avail themselves, and dearth to them is attended with almost all the evils of famine." Nor is this all : — men placed in such... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 886 pages
...already so low (hat they can fall no lower. Onaoj deficiency of the chief articles of their subsistence, there are few substitutes of which they can avail themselves, and dearth to them is attended with almost all the evils of famine." Nor is this all : — men placed in such... | |
 | 1862 - 838 pages
...so low t/iat they can fall no lower. On any deficiency of the chief articles of tiieir subsistence, there are few substitutes of which they can avail themselves; and dearth to them is attended with almost all tkz ev& of famim." If there are any who doubt the trutli of these... | |
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