Impediments to the Prosperity of IrelandSimms and M'Intyre, 1850 - 190 pages |
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Page xvii - Yet this object is accomplished far better than it could be by any effort of human wisdom, through the agency of men, who think each of nothing beyond his own immediate interest, — who, with that object in view, perform their respective parts with cheerful zeal, — and combine unconsciously to employ the wisest means for effecting an object, the vastness of which it would bewilder them even to contemplate.
Page 143 - This difference, however, in the mode of their subsistence, is not the cause, but the effect, of the difference in their wages ; though, by a strange misapprehension, I have frequently heard it represented as the cause. It is not because one man keeps a coach while his neighbour walks afoot, that the one is rich and the other poor ; but because the one is rich he keeps a coach, and because the other is poor he walks afoot.
Page xix - ... protected" against foreign competition by import duties ; but the free-traders had condemned such protection as an injustice to the consumer, and, in the long ran, an injury to the producer ; and Peel now proclaimed that the true commercial policy was " to buy in the cheapest market, and sell in the dearest.
Page 52 - Why does another wish to purchase this same land ? it is to employ a capital which brings him in too little, which was unemployed, or the use of which he thinks susceptible of improvement. This exchange will increase the general income, since it increases the income of these parties. But if the charges are so exorbitant as to prevent the exchange, they are an obstacle to this increase of the general income.
Page xv - Some, indeed, of the articles consumed admit of being reserved in public or private stores, for a considerable time ; but many, including most articles of animal food, and many of vegetable, are of the most perishable nature. As a deficient supply of these, even for a few days, would occasion great inconvenience, so a redundancy of them would produce a corresponding waste. Moreover, in a district of such vast extent, as this 'province...
Page 187 - ... unless and until a memorandum or minute, containing the name, and the usual or last known place of abode, and the title, trade, or profession of the person whose estate is intended to be affected thereby, and the Court and the title of the cause...
Page 118 - There is, I believe, nowhere in Europe, except in England, any instance of the tenant building upon the land of which he had no lease, and trusting that the honour of his landlord would take no advantage of so important an improvement. Those laws and customs so favourable to the yeomanry have perhaps contributed more to the present grandeur of England than all their boasted regulations of commerce taken together.
Page 73 - To improve land with profit, like all other commercial projects, requires an exact attention to small savings and small gains of which a man born to a great fortune, even though naturally frugal. is very seldom capable.
Page 55 - The chief object of passing the statute was, to prevent the facility to frauds and the temptation to perjury held out by the enforcement of obligations depending for their evidence upon the unassisted memory of witnesses.
Page xvi - ... and then let him reflect on the anxious toil which such a task would impose on a board of the most experienced and intelligent commissaries ; who after all would be able to discharge their office but very inadequately. Yet this object is accomplished far better than it could be by any effort of human wisdom, through the agency of men, who think each of nothing beyond his own immediate interest, — who, with that object in view, perform their...