 This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle...  Literary Amusements: In Verse and Prose - Page 8by Daniel Webb - 1787 - 76 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Tennant - England - 1862 - 746 pages
...etc. shows how highly he valued this industry, and is characteristic of bis style : — "There seem to be but three ways for a Nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. — The... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864 - 638 pages
...him but twenty. 'Finally, there seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbours. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third is by agriculture, the only... | |
 | Duncan George Forbes Macdonald - Agriculture - 1865 - 618 pages
...COLUMBIA AND VANCOUVER'S ISLAND," &c. FIFTH EDITION. W?-*" LONDON: LONGMANS, GREEN, & Co. There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their neighbours ; this IB robbery. The second by... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1868 - 786 pages
...demand forty, and perhaps get thirty shillings, for that which cost him hut twenty. Finally, there seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbours. This is robbery. The... | |
 | Exile from France - Communism - 1876 - 472 pages
...CHAPTER III. — COMMEHCE. " There scorn to bo but throe ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did in plundering their conquered neighbours ; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating ; the third by agriculture, the only honest way... | |
 | An exile from France - Communism - 1876 - 466 pages
...Etymonians have no compassion ; they would hold it a weakness. CHAPTER III. — COMMERCE. "There scorn to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did in plundering their conquered neighbours ; the second by commerce,... | |
 | John Tillotson - Quotations - 1880 - 392 pages
...and Joyce 's Systematic Education. CCCCXXII. J]N HONEST MEANS OF GETTING A LIVING. — There seems to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth : the first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbours — this is robbery ;... | |
 | David Thomas - 1881 - 446 pages
...* " There seems to be but three ways," says Franklin, " for a nation to acquire wealth : the first is by war as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbours, this is robbery ; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating ; the third by agriculture, the only... | |
 | Thomas Alfred Davies - Business - 1884 - 558 pages
...is the most healthful, the most useful, and the most noble employment of man. WASHINGTON. There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their neighbors: this is robbery. The second by commerce,... | |
 | Biography - 1901 - 502 pages
...4, p. 19}. AGRICULTURE, THE TRUE SOURCE OF NATIONAL WEALTH. [Written in 1769.] Finally, there seems to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second... | |
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