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    1. The policy must be as violent as that of Indostan or ancient Egypt (where every man was bound by a principle of religion to follow the occupation of his father, and was supposed to commit the most horrid sacrilege if he changed it for another), which can in any particular employment, and for several generations together, sink either the wages of labour or the profits of stock below their natural rate


    2. In China and Indostan, accordingly,


    3. But in the East Indies, particularly in China and Indostan, the value of the precious metals, when the Europeans first began to trade to those countries, was much higher than in Europe; and it still continues to be so


    4. The retinue of a grandee in China or Indostan accordingly is, by all accounts, much more numerous and splendid than that of the richest subjects in Europe


    5. But the real price of labour, the real quantity of the necessaries of life which is given to the labourer, it has already been observed, is lower both in China and Indostan, the two great markets of India, than it is through the greater part of Europe


    6. But in countries of equal art and industry, the money price of the greater part of manufactures will be in proportion to the money price of labour; and in manufacturing art and industry, China and Indostan, though inferior, seem not to be much inferior to any part of Europe


    7. In China and Indostan, the extent and variety of inland navigations save the greater part of this labour, and consequently of this money, and thereby reduce still lower both the real and the nominal price of the greater part of their manufactures


    8. Their quantity in China and Indostan must have been more or less affected by the abundance of the mines of America


    9. This is said to be a common practice in Turkey, in Indostan, and, I believe, in most other governments of Asia


    10. The course of human prosperity, indeed, seems scarce ever to have been of so long continuance as to unable any great country to acquire capital sufficient for all those three purposes; unless, perhaps, we give credit to the wonderful accounts of the wealth and cultivation of China, of those of ancient Egypt, and of the ancient state of Indostan

    11. The: wealth of ancient Egypt, that of China and Indostan, sufficient1y demonstrate that a nation may attain a very high degree of opulence, though the greater part of its exportation trade be carried on by foreigners


    12. But the empires of China, Indostan, Japan, as well as several others in the East Indies, without having richer mines of gold or silver, were, in every other respect, much richer, better cultivated, and more advanced in all arts and


    13. The greater part of it would replace the capitals which had been employed in Virginia, Indostan, and China, and which had given revenue and maintenance to the inhabitants of those distant countries


    14. In 1497, Vasco de Gamo sailed from the port of Lisbon with a fleet of four ships, and, after a navigation of eleven months, arrived upon the coast of Indostan ; and thus completed a course of discoveries which had been pursued with great steadiness, and with very little interruption, for near a century together


    15. Instead of the wealth, cultivation, and populousness of China and Indostan, he found, in St


    16. It lies upon the most frequented road from Indostan to China and Japan, and is nearly about mid-way upon that road


    17. The policy of ancient Egypt, too, and that of the Gentoo government of Indostan, seem to have favoured agriculture more than all other employments


    18. Those of the same kind which were constructed by the ancient sovereigns of Indostan, for the proper distribution of the waters of the Ganges, as well as of many other rivers, though they have been less celebrated, seem to have been equally great


    19. In both ancient Egypt and Indostan, indeed, the confinement of the foreign market was in some measure compensated by the conveniency of many inland navigations, which opened, in the most advantageous manner, the whole extent of the home market to every part of the produce of every different district of those countries


    20. The great extent of Indostan, too, rendered the home market of that country very great, and sufficient to support a great variety of manufactures

    21. Bengal accordingly, the province of Indostan which commonly exports the greatest quantity of rice, has always been more remarkable for the exportation of a great variety of manufactures, than for that of its grain


    22. The sovereigns of China, of ancient Egypt, and of the different kindoms into which Indostan has, at different times, been divided, have always derived the whole, or by far the most considerable part, of their revenue, from some sort of land tax or land rent


    23. The account which Bernier gives of some works of this kind in Indostan, falls very short of what had been reported of them by other travellers, more disposed to the marvellous than he was


    24. In China, besides, in Indostan, and in several other governments of Asia, the revenue of the sovereign arises almost altogether from a land tax or land rent, which rises or falls with the rise and fall of the annual produce of the land


    25. The disorders in the government of Indostan have been supposed to render a like precaution necessary, even among that mild and gentle people; and it was under pretence of securing their persons and property from violence, that both the English and French East India companies were allowed to erect the first forts which they possessed in that country


    26. If raw silk could be imported from China and Indostan, duty-free, the silk manufacturers in England could greatly undersell those of both France and Italy


    27. Bostan was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it


    28. On the show, George is accused of that form of cheating by his girlfriend Betsy’s brother, Timmy, when he (Costanza) dipped the chip, put it into his mouth and then dipped the same chip again


    29. As a software consultant, I went through the same challenge as Costanza, even before that episode


    30. Even after that incident, Costanza was hardly moved and showed no emotion, almost as if to say he was relieved

    31. Costanza is not included here, but marine biologists dive into the ocean to observe various life forms, thus coming up with conclusions about the deep


    32. “Hire this man,” were the words that Costanza heard and his reward for standing up to this owner


    33. The Wutain was really not sure he wanted to deal with the normally taciturn Costan when he was given the news


    34. Costanza’s balance wasn’t in the hundreds of thousands of dollars or even the tens of thousands, but he had a few hundred bucks there at his disposal


    35. called phytostanols, that block the absorption of cholesterol


    36. trials on sitostanol found that a reduction in the risk of heart disease of about 25% may be expected from use of sitostanol-containing spreads, a larger clinical effect than that


    37. To save two cents a cup, we will vote away our right to legal redress of a civil wrong by insisting upon tort reform to limit corporatenisms' financial liability arising from the violence they do their employees, consumers, and innocent eco-biostanders


    38. He was an unprepossessing man, small and thin, with sandy, sparse hair and myopic brown eyes that costantly blinked


    39. Such men now swarm through Hindostan


    40. Sherman, employing the same flanking movement, swung his vast army in another Johnston fought desperately at Resaca and repulsed the Yankees again, but semicircle, crossed the Oostanaula River and again struck at the railroad in the Confederate rear

    41. Michael Costantino (USA) was born without a right hand and made his professional debut in the cruiserweight division on 27 October 2012 in Brooklyn, New York, USA, stopping his opponent Nathan Ortiz (USA) in round two


    42. While Costantino is registered as light-heavyweight, this contest took place at the higher weight limit


    43. It was six men of Hindostan,


    44. Now, let us turn to Poet Saxe and this chapter’s concluding reflections:And so these men of Hindostan


    45. At the firm level the relation is clearly positive: positive earnings surprises trigger significant equity price appreciation—and even some postannouncement upward price drift (apparent underreaction)


    46. He then went on to explain that Hindostanee was the language he was himself at present studying; that, as he


    47. John opposed; he said I did not want dissipation, I wanted employment; my present life was too purposeless, I required an aim; and, I suppose, by way of supplying deficiencies, he prolonged still further my lessons in Hindostanee, and grew more urgent in requiring their accomplishment: and I, like a fool, never thought of resisting him—I could not resist him


    48. “Why did he wish it? Of what use could Hindostanee


    49. As an overladen Indiaman bearing down the Hindostan coast with a deck load of frightened horses, careens, buries, rolls, and wallows on her way; so did this old whale heave his aged bulk, and now and then partly turning over on his cumbrous rib-ends, expose the cause of his devious wake in the unnatural stump of his starboard fin


    50. The peasants of the village of Ostankino came indeed to Moscow with thirty cart-loads of oats and flour which were duly bought and paid for





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