 | Adam Smith - 1786 - 538 стор.
...paffion for prefent enjoyment ; which, though fometimes violent and very difficult to be reftrained, is in general only momentary and occafional. But the...thofe two moments, there is fcarce perhaps a fingle inftant in which any man is fo perfectly and completely fatisfied with his fituation, as to be without... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1811 - 550 стор.
...paffion for prefent enjoyment ; which, 'though fometimes violent and very difficult to be reftrained, is in general only momentary and occafional. But the...completely fatisfied with his fituation, as to be without anywifh of .alteration or.im;'• c 2 provement BOOK provement of any kind. An augmentation of fortune... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1824 - 144 стор.
...source of wealth, and that the wish to augment our fortunes and to rise in the world — a wish that comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave — is the cause of wealth being saved and accumulated : He has shown that labour is productive of... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1825 - 204 стор.
...is the desire of bettering our condition ; a desire which, though generally calm and dispassionate, comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till...we go into the grave. In the whole interval which separates these two moments, there is scarce, perhaps, « single instance in which any man is so perfectly... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1825 - 446 стор.
...source of wealth, and that the wish to augment our fortunes and to rise in the world — a wish that comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave — is the cause of wealth being saved and accumulated : He has shown that labour is productive of... | |
 | Samuel Read - 1829 - 444 стор.
...most profound and sagacious authors who have treated the subject. Dr Smith observes of it, that it comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave. " The principle which prompts to expense," he says " is the passion for present enjoyment, which, though... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1849 - 686 стор.
...is the desire of bettering our condition ; a desire which, though generally calm and dispassionate, comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till...we go into the grave. In the whole interval which separates these two moments, there is scarce, perhaps, a single instant in which any man is so perfectly... | |
 | John Minter Morgan - 1850 - 172 стор.
...wealth, and that the wish to augment our fortune, and to rise in the world — a wish that comes to us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave — is the cause of wealth being saved and accumulated. He has shown that labour is productive of wealth... | |
 | James William Gilbart - 1854 - 428 стор.
...real source of wealth : that the wish to augment our fortune and to rise in the world — a wish that comes with us from the womb and never leaves us till we go into the grave — is the cause of wealth being saved and accumulated." — Macculloch. " It is the interest of every... | |
 | Sir George Kettilby Rickards - 1854 - 284 стор.
...if he partakes in that prevailing desire to better his condition, which, as the same author says, " comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go to the grave," he will be impelled to add more and more to his capital, by turning into that channel... | |
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... comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave. 
