 | Roads - Bridges - 1839 - 360 pages
...which are dignified by the name of roads. The value of roads is thus happily expressed by Dr. Anderson. "Around every market-place you may suppose a number...thus become the sources of wealth and prosperity to many individuals. Diminish the expense of carriage but one farthing, and you widen the circles, you... | |
 | Edmund Leahy - Roads - 1844 - 340 pages
...of good roads, he says, " Around every Market Place you may suppose a number of concentric circles drawn, within each of which certain articles become...thus become the sources of wealth and prosperity to many individuals. Diminish the expense of carriage but one farthing, and you widen the circle ; you... | |
 | Christianity - 1844 - 776 pages
...the excessive badness of such as happened to exist. "Around every market-place," says Dr. Anderson, " you may suppose a number of concentric circles to be drawn, within each of which articles become marketable, which were not so before, and thus become the sources of wealth and prosperity... | |
 | John Luther Ringwalt - Transportation - 1888 - 532 pages
...individual wealth. The general law governing this subject is well stated by an English writer, who says: "Around every market-place you may suppose a...marketable, which were not so before, and thus become the source of wealth and prosperity to many individuals. Diminish the expense of carriage but one farthing,... | |
 | Dexter Merriam Keezer, Addison Thayer Cutler, Frank Richardson Garfield - Economics - 1928 - 736 pages
...best general exposition of this subject is by an English writer who says : "Around every market place you may suppose a number of concentric circles to...marketable, which were not so before, and thus become the source of wealth and prosperity to many individuals. Diminish the expense of carriage but one farthing,... | |
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Around every market-place you may suppose a number of concentric circles to be drawn, within each of which certain articles become marketable, which were not so before, and thus become the sources of wealth and prosperity to many individuals. Diminish... 