...AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS by Adam Smith A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SER... ...CTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... and improvement of the latter country. The corn of France is, in the corn-provinces, fully as good, and in most years nearly about the same price wit... ...Upper Egypt extends itself nowhere above a few miles from the Nile; and in Lower Egypt, that great river breaks itself into many different canals, whi... ...d manufactures seem like- wise to have been of very great antiquity in the provinces of Ben- gal, in the East Indies, and in some of the eastern provi... ...gable canals, in the same manner as the Nile does in Egypt. In the eastern provinces of China, too, several great rivers form, by their different bran... ...circumstances which regulate the rent of land, and which ei- ther raise or lower the real price of all the different substances which it produces. CHA... ...e former are disposed to combine in order to raise, the latter in order to lower, the wages of labour. It is not, however, difficult to foresee which ...

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...Contents INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DIS...

...son, M.A. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J.... ...h Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, M.A. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...and possessing also ready means of shaking it off. In regard to the latter provinces, moreover, the rival pretensions of France, and the neighbourhood... ...lready in their posses- sion would it was evident soon be so. The whole of Lower Germany was already secularized; and if it were otherwise in Upper Ge... ...ties and Maximilian’s mildness, had met with a rapid success. The Austrian provinces exhibited in miniature what Germany did on a larger scale. The gr... ...ion. The more unfortunate each nation felt itself in being degraded into a province of a foreign king- dom, the stronger desire did they feel to obey ... ...ample had already been set in several of the ecclesi- astical benefices of Lower Germany, and at- tended with success. Several canons of Cologne had a... ...s that the blow would fall on the south rather than the north, because, in Lower Germany, the Prot- estants were connected together through a long 51...

...Preface: The present is the only collected edition of the principal works of Schiller which is accessible to English readers. Detached poems or dramas have been translated at various times, and sometimes by men of eminence, since the first publication of the original works; a...

...ations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ssed as be 20 Considerations on Representative Government longing to the province of Order. Yet what can be more con ducive to Progress? A financia... ...heir own particular business ill, the effect is felt in a thousand ways in lowering the morality and deadening the intelligence and activity of the pe... ...e same kind, though far less in degree, is pro duced on Englishmen of the lower middle class by their li ability to be placed on juries and to serve... ...dapted in proportion to their degree of general improvement. As they range lower and lower in development, that form of government will be, generally ... ... ought to take personally upon itself. With regard to the rest, its proper province is not to do it, but to take means for having it well done by othe... ...to secure this amount, the assembly will encroach, by special acts, on the province of the executive; it will expel a good, or elevate and uphold a ba...

...Preface: Those who have done me the honor of reading my previous writings will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been working up during the greater part of my life, and most of the p...

....................................................................................................................... 4 Chapter I To What Extent Forms of Government are a Matter of Choice ............................................................. 5 Chapter II The Criterion of a Good Form of Government .........................................................................