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    1. All the countries of this area knew the ocean- India, Japan; all have learned to rely on the ocean and her bounty


    2. The Kid stepped back into the corridor and allowed me to lift my hood up so that I could see the full glory of his bounty


    3. Thank you for this bounty you have set before us


    4. rocky hollow to wait for the bounty of the oceans to come his way


    5. She pointed out the various qualities of the little shrubs, weeds, grasses, trees, and other growths of nature's bounty; she described their uses and seasons


    6. “What if they find out it’s me? I’ll have a bounty on my head,” The Killer


    7. Only one of these islands is inhabited, and some say it is the most remote place on earth to live! Most are descendents of the Bounty Mutineers and Tahitians who accompanied them


    8. "What is it that you want from us, X'ander, if not the bounty on our heads?"


    9. Today, however, the Chief was looking for bigger bounty


    10. The second event was the bounty upon the exportation of corn, granted in 1688

    11. The bounty, it has been thought by many people, by encouraging tillage, may, in a long course of years, have occasioned a greater abundance, and, consequently, a greater cheapness of corn in the home market, than what would otherwise have taken place there


    12. How far the bounty could produce this effect at any time I shall examine hereafter: I shall only observe at present, that between 1688 and 1700, it had not time to produce any such effect


    13. The scarcity which prevailed in England, from 1693 to 1699, both inclusive, though no doubt principally owing to the badness of the seasons, and, therefore, extending through a considerable part of Europe, must have been somewhat enhanced by the bounty


    14. And though the bounty which has taken place through the greater part of this century, must always raise the price of corn somewhat higher than it otherwise would be in the actual state of tillage ; yet, as in the course of this century, the bounty has had full time to produce all the good effects commonly imputed to it to encourage tillage, and thereby to increase the quantity of corn in the home market, it may, upon the principles of a system which I shall explain and examine hereafter, be supposed to have done something to lower the price of that commodity the one way, as well as to raise it the other


    15. In 1688 was granted the parliamentary bounty upon the exportation of corn


    16. The bounty was an expedient to raise it artificially to the high price at which it had frequently been sold in the times of Charles I


    17. If his calculations deserve any part of the reputation which they have obtained very universally, eight-and-forty shillings the quarter was a price which, without some such expedient as the bounty, could not at that time be expected, except in years of extraordinary scarcity


    18. The value of silver, therefore, in proportion to that of corn, had probably risen somewhat before the end of the last century; and it seems to have continued to do so during the course of the greater part of the present, though the necessary operation of the bounty must have hindered that rise from being so sensible as it otherwise would have been in the actual state of tillage


    19. In plentiful years, the bounty, by occasioning an extraordinary exportation, necessarily raises the price of corn above what it otherwise would be in those years


    20. In years of great scarcity, indeed, the bounty has generally been suspended

    21. Both in years of plenty and in years of scarcity, therefore, the bounty raises the price of corn above what it naturally would be in the actual state of tillage


    22. If during the sixty-four first years of the present century, therefore, the average price has been lower than during the sixty-four last years of the last century, it must, in the same state of tillage, have been much more so, had it not been for this operation of the bounty


    23. But, without the bounty, it may be said the state of tillage would not have been the same


    24. Between 1741 and 1750, however, the bounty must have hindered the price of corn from falling so low in the home market as it naturally would have done


    25. The bounty paid for this amounted to £ 1,514,962:17:4 1/2


    26. In 1749, accordingly, Mr Pelham, at that time prime minister, observed to the house of commons, that, for the three years preceding, a very extraordinary sum had been paid as bounty for the exportation of corn


    27. In that single year, the bounty paid amounted to no less than £ 324,176:10:6


    28. If the former have not been as much below the general average as the latter have been above it, we ought probably to impute it to the bounty


    29. He is at all times, therefore, surrounded with a multitude of retainers and dependants, who, having no equivalent to give in return for their maintenance, but being fed entirely by his bounty, must obey him, for the same reason that soldiers must obey the prince who pays them


    30. care that she’d slept through her capture? And why stay in the cave overnight? Despite the rain, you’d think he would have been eager to collect his bounty

    31. The subsistence of both is derived from his bounty, and its continuance depends upon his good pleasure


    32. Except in times of scarcity, the exportation of corn is not only free, but encouraged by a bounty


    33. In that simple state, the expense even of a sovereign is not directed by the vanity which delights in the gaudy finery of a court, but is employed in bounty to his


    34. But bounty and


    35. The high price of lean cattle, by augmenting the value of uncultivated land, is like a bounty against improvement


    36. But as the bounty upon corn occasions a greater exportation in years of plenty, so it must, of consequence, occasion a greater importation in years of scarcity, than in the actual state of tillage would otherwise take place


    37. If there were no bounty, as less corn would be exported, suit is probable that, one year with another, less would be imported than at present


    38. It is in the corn-merchants, accordingly, rather than the country gentlemen and farmers, that I have observed the greatest anxiety for the renewal and continuation of the bounty


    39. First, All those manufactures of which any part is commonly exported to other European countries without a bounty, could be very little affected by the freest importation of foreign goods


    40. But a great part of all the different branches of our woollen manufacture, of our tanned leather, and of our hardware, are annually exported to other European countries without any bounty, and these are the manufactures which employ the greatest number of hands

    41. But every branch of trade in which the merchant can sell his goods for a price which replaces to him, with the ordinary profits of stock, the whole capital employed in preparing and sending them to market, can be carried on without a bounty


    42. The bounty is given in order to make up this loss, and to encourage him to continue, or, perhaps, to begin a trade, of which the expense is supposed to be greater than the returns, of which every operation eats up a part of the capital employed in it, and which is of such a nature, that if all other trades resembled it, there would soon be no capital left in the country


    43. But if the bounty did not repay to the merchant what he would otherwise lose upon the price of his goods, his own interest would soon oblige him to employ his stock in another way, or to find out a trade in which the price of the goods would replace to him, with the ordinary profit, the capital employed in sending them to market


    44. The ingenious and well-informed author of the Tracts upon the Corn Trade has shown very clearly, that since the bounty upon the exportation of corn was first established, the price of the corn exported, valued moderately enough, has exceeded that of the corn imported, valued very high, by a much greater sum than the amount of the whole bounties which have been paid during that period


    45. He does not consider that this extraordinary expense, or the bounty, is the smallest part of the expense which the exportation of corn really costs the society


    46. Unless the price of the corn, when sold in the foreign markets, replaces not only the bounty, but this capital, together with the ordinary profits of stock, the society is a loser by the difference, or the national stock is so much diminished


    47. But the very reason for which it has been thought necessary to grant a bounty, is the supposed insufficiency of the price to do this


    48. considerably since the establishment of the bounty


    49. But this event, supposing it to be real, as I believe it to be, must have happened in spite of the bounty, and cannot possibly have happened in consequence of it


    50. It has happened in France, as well as in England, though in France there was not only no bounty, but, till 1764, the exportation of corn was subjected to a general prohibition














































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