 | 1824 - 612 pages
...matter is rarely of any use whatever, and is never of any value. Place us on the banks of a river, or in an orchard, and we shall infallibly perish either...our lips, or pluck the fruit from its parent tree.' This last position we are most ready to admit, but we cannot think it follows from it, that labour... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1824 - 616 pages
...whatever, and is never of any value. Place us on the banks of a river, or in an orchard, and we shadl infallibly perish either of thirst or hunger, if we...not, by an effort of industry, raise the water to ourlips, or pluck the fruit from its parent tree.' This last position we are most ready to admit, but... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1825 - 446 pages
...and is not, nor ever has been, considered as forming wealth.* Place us on the banks of a river, or in an orchard, and we shall infallibly perish, either...our lips, or pluck the fruit from its parent tree. It is seldom, however, that the mere appropriation of matc'est que creer ou auneantir, si nous entendons... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1825 - 204 pages
...rarely ""'^JaMi!'' of any use whatever, and is never of any value. Place us on the banks of a river, or in an orchard, and we shall infallibly perish, either...the water to our lips, or pluck the fruit from its pa- «• rent tree. It is seldom, however, that the mere appropriation of matter is sufficient. In... | |
 | Thomas Hodgskin - 1827 - 318 pages
...us," says Mr. M'Culloch. " on the banks of a river, or in an orchard, and we shall infallibly perish of thirst or hunger, if we do not, by an effort of...raise the water to our lips, or pluck the fruit from the parent-tree."• Familiar and correct as the principle, that all wealth is the produce of labour,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 pages
...whatever, and (but this we dispute) is never of any value. Place us on the banks of a river,' he adds, ' or in an orchard, and we shall infallibly perish either...raise the water to our lips, or pluck the fruit from the parent tree.' This last specimen of industry is certainly needful in the situation described, and... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - 1837 - 1158 pages
...value, and is not, nor ever has been, considered as forming wealth. Place us on the banks of a river, or in an orchard, and we shall infallibly perish, either...industry, raise the water to our lips, or pluck the fruit of the parent tree."* " Those who contend, as almost all the continental economists do, that the agency... | |
 | 1824 - 618 pages
...matter is rarely of any use whatever, and is never of any value. Place us on the banks of a river, or in an orchard, and we shall infallibly perish either...our lips, or pluck the fruit from its parent tree.' This last position we are most ready to admit, but we cannot think it follows from it, that labour... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1849 - 686 pages
...forming wealth.1 Place us on the banks of a river, or in an orchard, and we shall infallibly perish, of thirst or hunger, if we do not, by an effort of...our lips, or pluck the fruit from its parent tree. It is seldom, however, that the mere appropriation of matter is sufficient. In the vast majority of... | |
 | John R. McCulloch - 1849 - 682 pages
...forming wealth.1 Place us on the banks of a river, or in an orchard, and we shall infallibly perish, of thirst or hunger, if we do not, by an effort of...our lips, or pluck the fruit from its parent tree. It is seldom, however, that the mere appropriation of matter is sufficient. In the vast majority of... | |
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Place us on the banks of a river, or in an orchard, and we shall infallibly perish, either of thirst or hunger, if we do not, by an effort of industry, raise the water to our lips, or pluck the fruit from its parent tree. 
