 | Adam Smith - 1809 - 372 pagina’s
...comfortable. It is hard In the stationary, and miserable in the declining, state. The progressive state is, in reality, the cheerful and the hearty state to all...the stationary is dull ; the declining melancholy. The liberal reward of labour, as it encourages the propagation, so it increases the industry of the... | |
 | John Weyland - 1816 - 556 pagina’s
...comfortable. It is hard in the stationary, and miserable in the declining state. The progressive state is in reality the cheerful and the hearty state to all the...The stationary is dull— the declining melancholy," Any system, which professes to found the happiness of a people upon measures having a tendency to produce... | |
 | John Weyland - 1816 - 538 pagina’s
...comfortable. It is haid in the stationary, and miserable in the declining state. The progressive state is in reality the cheerful and the hearty state to all the...stationary is dull — the declining melancholy.'' Any system* which professes to found the happioess of a people upon measures having a tendency to produce... | |
 | 610 pagina’s
...comfortable. It is hard in the stationary, and miserable in tbe declining state. Tbe progressive state is in reality the cheerful and the hearty state to all the different orders of society. The stationary is dull — the declining melancholy." — SMITH'S WEALTH OF NATIONS. Hooping... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1826 - 600 pagina’s
...comfortable. It is hard in the stationary, and miserable in the declining state. The progressive state is in reality the cheerful and the hearty state to all the...stationary is dull •, the declining, melancholy."' A great commercial Wealth of Nations, b. i, c. 8. and naval people could never arrive at either of... | |
 | 1826 - 1138 pagina’s
...comfortable. It is hard in the stationary, and miserable in the declining state. The progressive state is in reality the cheerful and the hearty state to all the...-the society. The stationary is dull ; the declining, melancholy."1 A great commercial 1 Wealth of Nations, b. i, c. 8. and naval people could never arrive... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1826 - 596 pagina’s
...is hard in the stationary, and miserable in the declining state. The progressive state is in realky the cheerful and the hearty state to all the different...stationary is dull ; the declining, melancholy."' A great commercial Wealth of Nations, b. i, c. 8. and naval people could never arrive at either of... | |
 | Samuel Read - 1829 - 444 pagina’s
...comfortable. It is hard in the stationary, and miserable in the declining. The progressive state is in reality the cheerful and the hearty state to all the...The stationary is dull, the declining melancholy."! * Wealth of Nations, book i. chap. 8. t Ibid. Buchanan's edition, note, p. 116. t Ibid, book i. chap.... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1830 - 752 pagina’s
...labourer is hard in the stationary, and miserable in the declining state. The progressive state is in reality the cheerful and the hearty state to all the different orders of society. The stationary is dull — the declining melancholy." — If we are in danger of falling into... | |
 | William Huskisson - 1831 - 708 pagina’s
...lahourer is hard in the stationary, and miserable in the declining state. The progressive state is in reality the cheerful and the hearty state to all the different orders of society. The stationary is dull—the declining melancholy." If we are in danger of falling into this... | |
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... acquisition, rather than when it has acquired its full complement of riches, that the condition of the labouring poor, of the great body of the people, seems to be the happiest and the most comfortable. It is hard in the stationary, and miserable... 
