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... proportion of 3 to 1 , the period of doubling will be only twelve years and four fifths . And this proportion is not only a possible supposition , but has actually occurred for short periods in more countries than one . Sir William ...
... proportion of 3 to 1 , the period of doubling will be only twelve years and four fifths . And this proportion is not only a possible supposition , but has actually occurred for short periods in more countries than one . Sir William ...
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... proportion as cultivation extended , the additions that could yearly be made to the former average produce must be gradually and regularly diminishing . That we may be the better able to compare the increase of population and food , let ...
... proportion as cultivation extended , the additions that could yearly be made to the former average produce must be gradually and regularly diminishing . That we may be the better able to compare the increase of population and food , let ...
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... proportion of work in the At fall , while the price of provisions rise . The laborer , therefore L ported eleven millions , must and a half . The poor con- many of them be reduced borers also being above the price of labor must tend to ...
... proportion of work in the At fall , while the price of provisions rise . The laborer , therefore L ported eleven millions , must and a half . The poor con- many of them be reduced borers also being above the price of labor must tend to ...
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... proportion to the population as at the period from which we set out . The situation of the laborer being then again tolerably comfortable , the restraints to population are in some degree loosened ; and , after a short period , the same ...
... proportion to the population as at the period from which we set out . The situation of the laborer being then again tolerably comfortable , the restraints to population are in some degree loosened ; and , after a short period , the same ...
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... proportion of the number of adults to the number of marriages ; the extent to which vicious customs have prevailed in consequence of the estraints upon matrimony ; the comparative mortality among the children of the most distressed part ...
... proportion of the number of adults to the number of marriages ; the extent to which vicious customs have prevailed in consequence of the estraints upon matrimony ; the comparative mortality among the children of the most distressed part ...
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Popular passages
Page 444 - By marriage the husband and wife are one person in law ; that is the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband...
Page 581 - Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands ; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives ; while they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
Page 578 - For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; 8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. 9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Page 579 - Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.
Page 579 - For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
Page 762 - A ship lost at sea for many days suddenly sighted a friendly vessel. From the mast of the unfortunate vessel was seen a signal, "Water, water; we die of thirst!" The answer from the friendly vessel at once came back, "Cast down your bucket where you are.
Page 257 - ... any person whose ticket or passage is paid for with the money of another or who is assisted by others to come, unless it is affirmatively and satisfactorily shown on special inquiry that such person does not belong to one of the foregoing excluded classes...
Page 764 - ... that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized. It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of these privileges. The opportunity to earn a dollar in a factory just now is worth infinitely more than the opportunity to spend a dollar in an opera house.
Page 405 - An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens to, and the residence of aliens in, the United States...
Page 374 - States, he shall cause such alien within the period of three years after landing or entry therein to be taken into custody and returned to the country whence he came...