The Querist: Containing Several Queries, Proposed to the Consideration of the Public ... To which is Added, by the Same Author, A Word to the Wise: of An Extortation to the Roman Catholic Clergy of Ireland |
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... wealth . As the fum of human hap- piness is fuppofed to confift in the goods of mind , body , and fortune , I would fain make my ftudies of fome ufe to mankind with regard to each of these three particulars , and hope it will not be ...
... wealth . As the fum of human hap- piness is fuppofed to confift in the goods of mind , body , and fortune , I would fain make my ftudies of fome ufe to mankind with regard to each of these three particulars , and hope it will not be ...
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... four elements , and man's labour therein , be not the true . fource of wealth . 5. Whether money be not only fo far ufeful , asit flirreth up induftry , enabling men mutually to participate the fruits of each others labour A 3 [ 5 ] THE ...
... four elements , and man's labour therein , be not the true . fource of wealth . 5. Whether money be not only fo far ufeful , asit flirreth up induftry , enabling men mutually to participate the fruits of each others labour A 3 [ 5 ] THE ...
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... wealth be not proportioned to the industry , and this to the circulation of credit , be the credit circulated or transferred- by what marks or tokens foever ? 22. Whether , therefore , lefs mo- ney swiftly circulating be not , in effect ...
... wealth be not proportioned to the industry , and this to the circulation of credit , be the credit circulated or transferred- by what marks or tokens foever ? 22. Whether , therefore , lefs mo- ney swiftly circulating be not , in effect ...
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... wealthy people ? Whether mines of gold and filver are capable of doing this ? And whether the Negroes amidst the gold fands of Afric are not poor and deftitute ? 30. Whether there be any virtue in gold or filver , other than as they fet ...
... wealthy people ? Whether mines of gold and filver are capable of doing this ? And whether the Negroes amidst the gold fands of Afric are not poor and deftitute ? 30. Whether there be any virtue in gold or filver , other than as they fet ...
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... wealth ? And whether money be not , in truth , tickets or tokens for convey- ing and recording fuch power , and whether it be of great confequence what materials the tickets are made of ? 36. Whether trade , either foreign or domeftic ...
... wealth ? And whether money be not , in truth , tickets or tokens for convey- ing and recording fuch power , and whether it be of great confequence what materials the tickets are made of ? 36. Whether trade , either foreign or domeftic ...
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Page 3 - Whether the terms crown, livre, pound sterling, &c., are not to be considered as exponents or denominations of such proportion? And whether gold, silver, and paper, are not tickets or counters for reckoning, recording, and transferring thereof ? 26.
Page 27 - Whether, if there was a wall of brass a thousand cubits high round this kingdom, our natives might not nevertheless live cleanly and comfortably, till the land, and reap the fruits of it...
Page 5 - Whether power to command the industry of others be not real wealth ? And whether money be not in truth tickets or tokens for conveying and recording such power, and whether it be of great consequence what materials the tickets are made of?
Page 122 - And it may be affirmed with truth, that the very savages of America are better clad and better lodged than the Irish cottagers throughout the fine fertile counties of Limerick and Tipperary. Having long observed and bewailed this wretched state of my countrymen, and the insufficiency of several methods set on foot to reclaim them, I have recourse to your Reverences, as the dernier ressort.
Page 119 - In every road the ragged ensigns of poverty are displayed ; you often meet caravans of poor, whole families in a drove, without clothes to cover, or bread to feed them, both which might be easily procured by moderate labour.
Page 33 - If it be resolved that we cannot do without foreign trade, whether, at least, it may not be worth while to consider what branches thereof deserve to be entertained, and how far we may be able to carry it on under our present limitations...
Page 1 - Freedom than thofe which are unreafonable ? 15. Whether a general good Tafte in a People would not greatly conduce to their thriving ? And whether an uneducated Gentry be not the greateft of national Evils?