Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity.

Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity.

Both ground- rents and the ordinary rent of land are a species of revenue which the owner, in many cases, enjoys without any care or attention of his own. The annual produce of the land and labour of the society, the real wealth and revenue of the great body of the people, might be the same after such a tax as before. Ground-rents, and the ordinary rent of land are, therefore, perhaps the species of revenue which can best bear to have a peculiar tax imposed upon them.

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

A very poor man may be said in some sense to have a demand for a coach and six; he might like to have it; but his demand is not an effectual demand, as the commodity can never be brought to market in order to satisfy it.

Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.

The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the affect of increasing wealth, so it is the cause of increasing population. To complain of it, is to lament over the necessary effect and cause of the greatest public prosperity.