Prince Albert's golden precepts: or, The opinions and maxims of ... the prince consort, selected from his addresses, etc |
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Let them be careful , however , to avoid any dictatorial interference with labour
and employment , which frightens away capital , destroys that freedom of thought
and independence of action which must remain to every one if he is to work out ...
Let them be careful , however , to avoid any dictatorial interference with labour
and employment , which frightens away capital , destroys that freedom of thought
and independence of action which must remain to every one if he is to work out ...
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cheapest for our purposes , and the powers of production are entrusted to the
stimulus of competition and capital . So man is approaching a more complete
fulfilment of that great and sacred mission which he has to perform in this world .
cheapest for our purposes , and the powers of production are entrusted to the
stimulus of competition and capital . So man is approaching a more complete
fulfilment of that great and sacred mission which he has to perform in this world .
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19 Science and mechanical improvement have in these days changed the mere
practice of cultivating the soil into an industrial pursuit , requiring capital ,
machinery , industry , and skill , and perseverance in the struggle of competition .
This is ...
19 Science and mechanical improvement have in these days changed the mere
practice of cultivating the soil into an industrial pursuit , requiring capital ,
machinery , industry , and skill , and perseverance in the struggle of competition .
This is ...
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... agreements , but on that mutual trust and confidence which has in this country
for a long time been held a sufficient security to both , to warrant the extensive
outlay of capital , and the engagement in farming operations on the largest scale .
... agreements , but on that mutual trust and confidence which has in this country
for a long time been held a sufficient security to both , to warrant the extensive
outlay of capital , and the engagement in farming operations on the largest scale .
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... who possess capital to invest , that they may do so with great profit and
advantage to themselves , at the same time that they are dispensing those
comforts to which I have alluded to their poorer brethren . CHARACTERISTICS
OF THE AGE .
... who possess capital to invest , that they may do so with great profit and
advantage to themselves , at the same time that they are dispensing those
comforts to which I have alluded to their poorer brethren . CHARACTERISTICS
OF THE AGE .
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Page 46 - ... we are living at a period of most wonderful transition, which tends rapidly to accomplish that great end, to which, indeed, all history points— the realization of the unity of mankind. Not a unity which breaks down the limits and levels the peculiar characteristics of the different nations of the earth, but rather a unity, the result and product of those very national varieties and antagonistic qualities.
Page 2 - ... person ; but it is more peculiarly the duty of those who, under the blessing of Divine Providence, enjoy station, wealth, and education.
Page 45 - I conceive it to be the duty of every educated person closely to watch and study the time in which he lives; and, as far as in him lies, to add his humble mite of individual exertion to further the accomplishment of what he believes Providence to have ordained.
Page 46 - ... placed within the reach of everybody ; thought is communicated with the rapidity, and even by the power, of lightning.
Page 46 - Nobody, however, who has paid any attention to the peculiar features of our present era, will doubt for a moment that we are living at a period of most wonderful transition, which tends rapidly to accomplish that great end to which, indeed, all history points — the realization of the unity of mankind.
Page 3 - Let them be careful, however, to avoid any dictatorial interference with labour and employment, which frightens away capital, destroys that freedom of thought and independence of action which must remain to every one if he is to work out his own happiness, and impairs that confidence under which alone engagements for mutual benefit are possible.
Page 58 - The Exhibition of 1851 is to give us a true test and a living picture of the point of development at which the whole of mankind has arrived in this great task, and a new starting point from which all nations will be able to direct their further exertions.
Page 96 - Please to recollect that this species of bore is a most useful animal, well adapted for the ends for which Nature intended him. He alone, by constantly returning to the charge, and repeating the same truths and the same requests, succeeds in awakening attention to the cause which he advocates, and obtains that hearing which is granted him at last for self-protection, as the minor evil compared to his importunity, but which is requisite to make his cause understood.
Page 107 - ... all, can only embrace a comparatively short space of time, and a small number of experiments. From none of these causes can we hope for much progress ; for the mind, however ingenious, has no materials to work with, and remains in presence of phenomena, the causes of which are hidden from it. But...
Page 12 - The products of all quarters of the globe are placed at our disposal, and we have only to choose which is the best and the cheapest for our purposes, and the powers of production are intrusted to the stimulus of competition and capital.
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| Title | Prince Albert's golden precepts: or, The opinions and maxims of ... the prince consort, selected from his addresses, etc |
| Author | Albert (consort of Victoria, queen of Gt. Britain.) |
| Publisher | Sampson Low & Company, 1862 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 13 juuli 2006 |
| Length | 133 pages |
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