That as to the practice being favourable to wantonness and vice, while he admitted that idleness was productive of these effects, he could not see how one occupation encouraged them more than another.

The English counties most productive in poultry are Surrey, Sussex, Norfolk, Herts, Devon, and Somerset.

Hence the smaller species are not only more numerous, but more productive than the larger; whilst their instinct leads them in search of food and safety near the shores, where, from the shallowness of the waters, many of their foes are unable to follow them.

Dodsley, about ten years after his purchase, candidly owned that the sale had been more productive to him than that of any other book in which he had before been concerned; and with much liberality restored the copy-right to the author.

Sterility of the Capitalist Question A further consequence of the one-sided power of capital was the disproportionate prominence of those branches of business which were the most sterile and the least productive for the national economy as a whole.

It would be powerful and productive beyond all our present dreams.

The valleys are as fair as the sun ever shone upon, with soil as productive as the valley of the Nile.

The tool of the artisan is not like the peasant's plot of ground, which is more productive after having lain fallow.

The Crusades, which had facilitated the relations with Eastern countries, developed a taste in the West for their indigenous productions, gave a fresh vigour to this foreign commerce, and rendered it more productive by removing the stumbling blocks which had arrested its progress (Fig. 191).