 | 1847 - 652 pages
...exhausting pipes of neighboring steam-engines. The quantity of soap consumed by a nation, says Liebig, would be no inaccurate measure whereby to estimate its wealth and civilization. Of two countries with an equal amount of population, the wealthiest and most highly civilized will... | |
 | Justus Freiherr von Liebig - 1848 - 68 pages
...chemical productions which employ an immense amount of capital. The quantity of soap consumed by a nation would be no inaccurate measure whereby to estimate its wealth and civilization. Of two countries with an equal amount of population, the wealthiest and most highly civilized will... | |
 | Justus Freiherr von Liebig - 1851 - 576 pages
...estimate its wealth and civilisation. Political economists, indeed, will not give it this rank ; hut whether we regard it as joke or earnest, it is not the less true, that, of two countries, with an equal amount of population, we may declare with positive certainty, that the wealthiest and... | |
 | Justus Freiherr von Liebig - 1852 - 424 pages
...employ and keep in circulation an immense amount of capital. The quantity of soap consumed by a nation would be no inaccurate measure whereby to estimate its wealth and civilization. Of two countries with an equal amount of population, the wealthiest and most highly civilized will... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1856 - 592 pages
...cognizant of them as of no practical value. According to Liebig, the quantity of soap consumed by a nation would be no inaccurate measure whereby to estimate its wealth and civilization. Of two countries, therefore, with an equal amount of population, the wealthiest and most highly civilized... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1856 - 554 pages
...cognizant of them as of no practical value. According to Liebig, the quantity of soap consumed by a nation would be no inaccurate measure whereby to estimate its wealth and civilization. Of two countries, therefore, with an equal amount of population, the wealthiest and most highly civilized... | |
 | Sheridan Muspratt - 1853 - 312 pages
...the remark of LIEBIG must be acknowledged to be true, that the quantity of soap consumed by a nation would be no inaccurate measure whereby to estimate its wealth and civilization. Of two countries with an equal amount of population, the wealthiest and most highly civilized will... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1861 - 550 pages
...fully exemplified than in the case before us. Liebig says, "The quantity of soap consumed by a nation would be no inaccurate measure whereby to estimate its wealth and civilization." According to Pliny, the invention of soap must be ascribed to the Gauls, by whom, he says, it was composed... | |
 | Edward Thomas Stevens - 1866 - 434 pages
...no maccurate measure whereby to estimate its wealth and civilisation. Political economists, mdeed, will not give it this rank ; but whether we regard...earnest, it is not the less true, that, of two countries, with an equal amount of population, we may declare with positive certainty that the wealthier and more... | |
 | Edwin Troxell Freedley - 1867 - 638 pages
...made in this manufactory and the materials and mountings are often exceedingly rare and costly. XXIII. Soap and Candles. " The quantity of Soap consumed...not give it this rank ; but, whether we regard it as a joke or earnest, it is not the less true that, of two countries equal in population, we may declare... | |
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The quantity of soap consumed by a nation would be no inaccurate measure whereby to estimate its wealth and civilization. 
