An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations. eBook

William Playfair
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 405 pages of information about An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations..

An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations. eBook

William Playfair
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 405 pages of information about An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations..

TRADE—­See Commerce.

TREATIES, the best observed, have been those founded on equity add =sic= mutual interest, 186.

TYRE, early commerce, 21, 23.—­Its destruction one of the most permanent effects of Alexander’s wars, 24.—­Excited the king of Babylon to take Jerusalem, 45.

V.

VENICE, its greatness, 56, 57.

UNITED STATES.  See States of America.

W.

WAGES.  See Prices.

WAR generally occasioned by envy or rivalship, 14, 175, 219.—­ Ought not to be followed to procure wealth, as it is much more easily done by industry, 293.

WATT, James Esq. his invention of the steam engine, 203.

WEALTH, its definition in contra-distinction to power, 8, 9, 10.—­ Diminishes the necessity of industry, 29, 30.—­Leaves richer to go into poorer countries, 93.—­In England arises from industry, not from foreign possessions, 293, 294.

WEST Indies.  See Indies, West.

Y.

YOUTH.  See Education.

—–­> The reader will observe, on one =sic= of the pages, reference to an Appendix, but the design was altered, from the consideration that readers of history do not require solitary facts, by way of illustration, though such are very easy to be produced.

THE END.

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