The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral, and Literary, with His LifeS. Andrus and Son, 1847 - 304 pages |
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Page 223
... labor and industry ? May not luxury there- fore produce more than it consumes , if , without such a spur , people would be , as they are naturally enough inclined to be , lazy and indolent . To this purpose I remember a cir- cumstance ...
... labor and industry ? May not luxury there- fore produce more than it consumes , if , without such a spur , people would be , as they are naturally enough inclined to be , lazy and indolent . To this purpose I remember a cir- cumstance ...
Page 224
... labor , and encouraged , and the estate is now in better hands . In some cases , indeed , certain inodes of luxury may be a public evil , in the same manner as it is a private one . If there be a nation , for instance , that exports its ...
... labor , and encouraged , and the estate is now in better hands . In some cases , indeed , certain inodes of luxury may be a public evil , in the same manner as it is a private one . If there be a nation , for instance , that exports its ...
Page 225
... labor would produce sufficient to procure all the necessaries and comforts of life ; want and misery would be banished out of the world , and the rest of the twenty four hours might be leisure and pleasure . What occasions then se much ...
... labor would produce sufficient to procure all the necessaries and comforts of life ; want and misery would be banished out of the world , and the rest of the twenty four hours might be leisure and pleasure . What occasions then se much ...
Page 226
... labor is spent in building and fitting great ships , to go to China and Arabia for tea and coffee , to the West Indies for sugar , to America for tobacco ! These things cannot be called the necessaries of life , for our ancestors lived ...
... labor is spent in building and fitting great ships , to go to China and Arabia for tea and coffee , to the West Indies for sugar , to America for tobacco ! These things cannot be called the necessaries of life , for our ancestors lived ...
Page 228
... plenty of land for them to subsist on , and where they may flourish as a free state . But they are , I doubt , too little disposed to labor without compul- sion , as well as too ignorant to establish good 228 ESSAYS .
... plenty of land for them to subsist on , and where they may flourish as a free state . But they are , I doubt , too little disposed to labor without compul- sion , as well as too ignorant to establish good 228 ESSAYS .
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