 | James Bonar - 1885 - 456 pages
...to England but to any other country whatever. English interference, 1 Querist (1735) 134 : " Whether if there was a wall of brass a thousand cubits high...comfortably, till the land, and reap the fruits of it?" The " caged rats " of the Corn Law pamphlets give us the other side of the question. if it had done... | |
 | James Bonar - Malthusianism - 1885 - 272 pages
...qn. 3430, p. 327. ' Querist (1736) p. 134: "Whether if there was a wall of brass a thousand cnbite high round this kingdom, our natives might not nevertheless live cleanly and comfortably, till the laud, and reap the fruits of it 1" The " caged raU " of the Cora-Law pamphlets give us the other side... | |
 | John Hely-Hutchinson - Great Britain - 1888 - 320 pages
...asked* whether the natives might not be able to effect their own prosperity and elevation, even though " there was a wall of brass a thousand cubits high round this kingdom ?" Lord Clare, in his Union speech, declared that Ireland made more progress in her eighteen years... | |
 | James Bonar - Economics - 1893 - 438 pages
...connection will be considered later. * Ibid., 321. 5 Ibid., 317. 6 Ibid., 334. 7 Ibid., 322, 329, etc. turies had been due to imitation of foreigners and importations from them ; 1 or that a single country can hardly be rich and industrious when its neighbours are idle, any more... | |
 | George Berkeley - Idealism - 1898 - 606 pages
...nevertheless, there is any other people whose wants may be more easily supplied from home ? 134. Whether, if there was a wall of brass a thousand cubits high...comfortably, till the land, and reap the fruits of it ? woman, and child, like the other inhabitants of God's earth? 136. Be the restraining our trade well... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1898 - 580 pages
...nevertheless, there is any other people whose wants may be more easily supplied from home ? 140. Whether, if there was a wall of brass a thousand cubits high,...comfortably, till the land and reap the fruits of it ? 141. What should hinder us from exerting ourselves, using our hands and brains, doing something or... | |
 | George Berkeley - Idealism - 1898 - 556 pages
...nevertheless, there is any other people whose wants may be more easily supplied from home ? 140. Whether, if there was a wall of brass a thousand cubits high,...comfortably, till the land and reap the fruits of it ? 141. What should hinder us from exerting ourselves, using our hands and brains, doing something or... | |
 | Protectionism - 1912 - 846 pages
...hand. The tariff wall so dreaded by Protectionists did not horrify the philosopher who asked, "Whether, if there was a wall of brass a thousand cubits high...comfortably, till the land, and reap the fruits of it?" Every cheap Free Trader (and some are very cheap) tells us that the intellect of the universe has pronounced... | |
 | Thomas Dunbar Ingram - Ireland - 1900 - 404 pages
...not grow likewise, and if industry, our manufactures, and if these, our foreign credit. 5 Whether, if there was a wall of brass a thousand cubits high round the kingdom, our natives might not, nevertheless, live cleanly and comfortably, till the land, and... | |
 | George Berkeley, Alexander Campbell Fraser - 1901 - 636 pages
...nevertheless, there is any other people whose wants may be more easily supplied from home ? 134. Whether, if there was a wall of brass a thousand cubits high...comfortably, till the land, and reap the fruits of it ? 135. What should hinder us from exerting ourselves, using our hands and brains, doing something or... | |
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Whether, if there was a wall of brass a thousand cubits high round this kingdom, our natives might not nevertheless live cleanly and comfortably, till the land, and reap the fruits of it... 
