A Reply to the Essay on Population: By the Rev. T. R. Malthus. In a Series of Letters ...Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 - 378 strán (strany) |
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Strana 128
... Italy , or in Asia , or in Africa , or America , for in all or most of these places is its present state a very different thing from what it is in the rest of them ? One would imagine from the easy complacency with which Mr. Malthus ...
... Italy , or in Asia , or in Africa , or America , for in all or most of these places is its present state a very different thing from what it is in the rest of them ? One would imagine from the easy complacency with which Mr. Malthus ...
Strana 131
... Italy at the present day . Was there no difference be- tween the manners of ancient Rome in the early periods of her history , and towards the decline of the empire ? May not the state of manners in Italy under the republic , under the ...
... Italy at the present day . Was there no difference be- tween the manners of ancient Rome in the early periods of her history , and towards the decline of the empire ? May not the state of manners in Italy under the republic , under the ...
Strana 180
... pulation follows . When Rome , adopted the " custom of importing all her corn , and laying " all Italy into pasture , she soon declined in " population . The causes of the depopulation " of Egypt and Turkey have already been al- " 180.
... pulation follows . When Rome , adopted the " custom of importing all her corn , and laying " all Italy into pasture , she soon declined in " population . The causes of the depopulation " of Egypt and Turkey have already been al- " 180.
Strana 183
... Italy . Whilst it " was inhabited by nations governing them- " selves by their own will , they fell sometimes " into domestic seditions , and had frequent " wars with their neighbours . When they were " free , they loved their country ...
... Italy . Whilst it " was inhabited by nations governing them- " selves by their own will , they fell sometimes " into domestic seditions , and had frequent " wars with their neighbours . When they were " free , they loved their country ...
Strana 184
... Italy 66 66 66 was when Hannibal invaded it , and after his " defeat the rest of the world was not able to " resist their valour and power . They some- " times killed one another ; but their enemies never got any thing but burying ...
... Italy 66 66 66 was when Hannibal invaded it , and after his " defeat the rest of the world was not able to " resist their valour and power . They some- " times killed one another ; but their enemies never got any thing but burying ...
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Strana 356 - I should propose a regulation to be made, declaring that no child born from any marriage, taking place after the expiration of a year from the date of the law ; and no illegitimate child born two years from the same date, should ever be entitled to parish assistance.
Strana 222 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Christopher's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Strana 122 - I think I may fairly make two postulata. First, That food is necessary to the existence of man. Secondly, That the passion between the sexes is necessary, and will remain nearly in its present state.
Strana 82 - In the next period, the population would be eighty-eight millions, and the means of subsistence just equal to the support of half that number. And at the conclusion of the first century, the population would be...
Strana 82 - ... the means of subsistence would be equal to this increase. In the next twe.ntyfive years the population would be forty-four millions, and the means of subsistence only equal to the support of thirty-three millions.
Strana 144 - ... in civil society to human institutions. Political regulations, and the established administration of property are with him the fruitful sources of all evil, the hotbeds of all the crimes that degrade mankind. Were this really a true state of the case, it would not seem...
Strana 145 - They are alike hostile to intellectual improvement. The other vices of envy, malice, and revenge are their inseparable companions. In a state of society where men lived in the midst of plenty and where all shared alike the...
Strana 83 - In this supposition no limits whatever are placed to the produce of the earth. It may increase for ever and be greater than any assignable quantity; yet still the power of population being in every period so much superior, the increase of the human species can only be kept down to the level of the means of subsistence by the constant operation of the strong law of necessity, acting as a check upon the greater power.
Strana 178 - It is the hope of bettering our condition, and the fear of want, rather than want itself, that is the best stimulus to industry ; and its most constant and best directed efforts will almost invariably be found among a class of people above the class of the wretchedly poor.
Strana 288 - who is born into a world already possessed, if he cannot get subsistence from his parents, on whom he has a just demand, and if the society does not want his labour, has no claim of right to the smallest portion of food, and, in fact, has no business to be where he is.