 ... of a nation, or of mankind. In the wealth of mankind, nothing is included which does not of itself answer some purpose of utility or pleasure. To an individual, anything is wealth, which, though useless in itself, enables him to claim from others...  The Urban Poor in Latin America - Page 195by Marianne Fay - 2005 - 266 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Frederick Guest Tomlins - 1850 - 90 pages
...of mankind, nothing is included which does not of itself answer some purpose of utility or pleasure. To an individual, anything is wealth which, though...part of their stock of things useful or pleasant. Take, for instance, a mortgage of a thousand pounds on a landed estate. This is wealth to the person... | |
 | United States. Department of Agriculture - 1866 - 656 pages
...of mankind nothing is included which does not of itself answer some purpose of utility or pleasure. To an individual anything is wealth which, though...part of their stock of things, useful or pleasant. Take, for instance, a mortgage of a thousand pounds on a landed estate ; this is wealth to the person... | |
 | United States Commissioner of Agriculture - 1866 - 660 pages
...of mankind nothing is included which does not of itself answer some purpose of utility or pleasure. To an individual anything is wealth which, though...part of their stock of things, useful or pleasant. Take, for instance, a mortgage of a thousand pounds on a landed estate ; this is wealth to the person... | |
 | Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture - 1866 - 664 pages
...included which does not of itself answer some purpose of utility or pleasure. To an individual anything ia wealth which, though useless in itself, enables him...part of their stock of things, useful or pleasant. Take, for instance, a mortgage of a thousand pounds on a landed estate ; this is wealth to the person... | |
 | Henry Dunning Macleod - 1875 - 546 pages
...of mankind nothing is included which does not of itself answer some purpose of use or pleasure (?) To an individual, anything is wealth which, though...part of their stock of things, useful or pleasant. Take, for instance, a mortgage of a thousand pounds on a landed estate. This is wealth to the person... | |
 | Bonamy Price - 1878 - 614 pages
...included which does not answer some purpose of utility IS POLITICAL ECONOMY A SCIENCE ? 25 or pleasure. To an individual anything is wealth which, though...useless in itself, enables him to claim from others a portion of the stock of things useful or pleasant." On this doctrine, to have a right to a thing and... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1881 - 624 pages
...does/' .not of i^^f answer some purpose of utility or pleasure. To an individual, anything is Avealth, which, though useless in itself, enables him to claim...part of their stock of things useful or pleasant. Take, for instance, a mortgage of a thousand pounds on a landed estate. This is wealth to the person... | |
 | Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters - 1882 - 774 pages
...answer some purpose of utility or pleasure. To an individual anything is wealth which, though usele&s in itself, enables him to claim from others a part of their stock of things useful and pleasant Take lor instance a mortgage for a thousand pounds on a landed estate. This is wealth... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1885 - 626 pages
...of mankind, nothing is included which does not of itself answer some purpose of utility or pleasure. To an individual, anything is wealth, which, though...part of their stock of things useful or pleasant. Take, for instance, a mortgage of a thousand pounds on a landed estate. This is wealth to the person... | |
 | George Lacy - 1888 - 390 pages
...included which does not of itself answer some purpose of utility or pleasure. To an individual everything is wealth which, though useless in itself, enables...part of their stock of things useful or pleasant." * His final definition is, " all useful or agreeable things which possess exchangeable value, or in... | |
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