 ... has an income of a hundred crowns a year. He who has no substance, and yet has a trade, is not poorer than he who, possessing ten acres of land, is obliged to cultivate it for his subsistence. The mechanic who gives his art as an inheritance to his...  Socialism Before the French Revolution: A History - Page 48by William Buck Guthrie - 1907 - 339 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - Jurisprudence - 1766 - 610 pages
...who without any degree of wealth has an employment, is as much at his eafe as he who without labour has an income of a hundred crowns a year. He who has no fubftance, and yet has a trade, is not poorer than he who, pofleffing ten acres of land, is obliged... | |
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - Jurisprudence - 1823 - 810 pages
...because he has nothing, but because he does not work. . The man who without any degree of wealth has an employment, is as much at his ease as he who without labour has an income of a hundred crowns a year. He who has no substance, and yet has a trade, is not... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 534 pages
...because he has nothing, but because he does not work. The man who without any degree of wealth has an employment, is as much at his ease as he who without...inheritance to his children has left them a fortune which is multiplied in proportion to their number. It is not so with him who, having ten acres of land,... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - Literature - 1899 - 480 pages
...because he has nothing, but because he does not work. The man who without any degree of wealth has an employment is as much at his ease as he who without...inheritance to his children has left them a fortune, which is multiplied in proportion to their number. It is not so with him who, having ten acres of land,... | |
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - Evolution - 1899 - 476 pages
...because he has nothing, but because he does not work. The man who without any degree of wealth has an employment is as much at his ease as he who without...inheritance to his children has left them a fortune, which is multiplied in proportion to their number. It is not so with him who, having ten acres of land,... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Literature - 1901 - 396 pages
...he does not work. The man who without any degree of wealth has an employment is as much at his case as he who without labor has an income of a hundred...inheritance to his children has left them a fortune which is multiplied in proportion to their number. It is not so with him who, having ten acres of land,... | |
 | Montesquieu - Law - 1977 - 522 pages
...because he has nothing, but because he does not work. The man who without any degree of wealth has an employment, is as much at his ease as he who without labour has an income of an hundred crowns a year. He who has no substance, and yet has a trade, is... | |
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