Yes,--of all the annual appropriations by the National Government, eighty cents in every dollar were applied in this unproductive manner.
And yet the Oriental influence, so favourable to unproductive and luxurious expenditure, gained ground steadily.
At the mines of Aristeas, the silver veins are said to be unproductiveas soon as they pass into the green strata, whereas at S.
The unproductive consumer is a robber in their eyes.
It costs but little to live, the idler's life alone is a costly one, and I am not sure that the unproductiveconsumer is not robbing the community at large.
The third is the class of artificers, manufacturers, and merchants, whom they endeavour to degrade by the humiliating appellation of the barren or unproductive class.
The whole, or almost the whole public revenue is, in most countries, employed in maintaining unproductive hands.
Every year there would still be a certain quantity of food and clothing, which ought to have maintained productive, employed in maintaining unproductive hands.
The sovereign, for example, with all the officers both of justice and war who serve under him, the whole army and navy, are unproductive labourers.
Mercantile stock is equally barren and unproductive with manufacturing stock.
But, upon this account alone, the denomination of barren or unproductive should seem to be very improperly applied to it.
Secondly, a great part of the revenue, arising from both the rent of land and the profits of stock, is annually distributed among the same rank, in the wages and maintenance of menial servants, and other unproductive labourers.
That which is immediately destined for constituting a revenue, either as profit or as rent, may maintain indifferently either productive or unproductive hands.
I would therefore advise that under this system a new bed be made, as described, every third year; for, it should be remembered, the new bed is unproductive the first year.
Thus we soon have long naked reaches of unproductive wood, or sucker-like sprouts starting from the bark, which are worse than useless.
If a variety were persistently diseased, feeble, and unproductive under good treatment, I should root it out rather than continue to nurse and coddle it.
Although the meadows were unproductive ground to a naturalist, the woods on their borders teemed with life; the number and variety of curious insects of all orders which occurred here was quite wonderful.
Under any but the best of care, however, the vine is unproductiveand sets loose, straggling bunches.
At any rate he has left a fine estate to remain practically unproductive (the two farms and the house itself are in ruins).
When the Count El Valle's watchman chased us off some square miles of unfenced unproductivemountain she said it was atrocidad; when the weather was hot she said it was barbaridad.
Time occupied in the transport of goods is equivalent to so much interest of capital spent: for a thousand pounds invested in merchandise is unproductive so many days as the transport is tedious.
In addition to the evil arising from such a consumption of unproductive food, is also to be considered the very great loss consequent upon the heavy capital sunk in horse purchase.
All inquiries into the former deal with productive and unproductive labor; those into the latter treat of productive and unproductive consumption.
Without these things the labour of man would be unproductive and almost void; yet these very things have required much work, especially at first.
Sixty thousand coolies from India have rendered it possible for the sugar-cane to replace unproductive forest.
This radical defect of the Act was well and happily put by Lord Devon, when he said it authorized "unproductive work to be executed by borrowed money.
Is it, he asks, to be spent on productive orunproductive labour?
To buy food in foreign markets with money paid for unproductive labour at home, they of course, designate as it deserved.
In a country so circumstanced, how disappointing, then, and heart-sickening must it not have been to good and thoughtful men, to find the Government passing a bill for the employment of our people on unproductive labour.
He reviews the provisions of the Labour-rate Act, and like so many other enlightened men of the period--whose opinions he may be fairly taken to represent, he is alarmed at the principle of unproductive labour upon which it was based.
In New England they had fought against a hard climate and had managed to find a living on stony unproductive soil.
For the most part they lived in the mountains and the hill country of Kentucky and Tennessee, on land too poor and unproductive to be thought worth cultivating by their rich slave-owning neighbors of the valleys and plains.
Plautus had remained satisfied with exhibiting a miser, who deprived himself of all the comforts of life, to watch night and day over an unproductive treasure; but Moliere went deeper into the mind.
Every practical man in fact knows that bringing up the subsoil in any quantity, he would in some districts render his fields in a great measure unproductive for years to come.
To this must be added the interest on the debts of landowners and other unproductive consumers; except so far as the money borrowed may have been spent in remunerative improvement of the productive powers of the land.
During the last ten years nearly every acre of unproductive land has been reclaimed by a thorough system of drainage, so that now Otter Creek land sells at the top notch.
It were wholly unproductive to speculate what might have been accomplished by the union of all our educational forces here in Cedar Rapids.
About one-half of this expenditure may be charged to these last drills; the other was unproductive of anything of value.
July, 1858, and a new series of assessments were afterwards made which the Committee understand were as unproductive of beneficial results as were the former, upon which only partial payments had been made by a portion of the subscribers.
Rouvier, who first conceived the happy idea of turning the unproductive steppes into pasture.
No use can be made of the Caspian on account of the arid and unproductivesteppes that belt it on the Russian side.
The last military operations of Russia have been as unproductive as those that preceded them, and prove that no change has taken place in the belligerents respectively.
Russia could not possibly dispense with a series of fortified posts to keep up a regular communication with her army of occupation, and how could she erect and maintain such posts in a naked and wholly unproductive country?
