An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Том 1J. Maynard, 1811 |
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... pence . The proportion , however , be- tween the shilling , and either the penny on the one hand , or the pound on the other , seems not to have been so constant and uniform as that between the penny and the pound . During the first ...
... pence . The proportion , however , be- tween the shilling , and either the penny on the one hand , or the pound on the other , seems not to have been so constant and uniform as that between the penny and the pound . During the first ...
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... pence or four pence a pound , than that it is worth three or four pounds of bread , or three or four quarts of small beer . Hence it comes to pass , that the exchangeable value of every commodity is more frequently estimated by the ...
... pence or four pence a pound , than that it is worth three or four pounds of bread , or three or four quarts of small beer . Hence it comes to pass , that the exchangeable value of every commodity is more frequently estimated by the ...
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... Mary , the denomination of the English coin has undergone little or no alteration , and the same number of pounds , shillings , and pence , have contained very nearly the same quantity of pure sil- ver CH . V. 45 OF COMMODITIES .
... Mary , the denomination of the English coin has undergone little or no alteration , and the same number of pounds , shillings , and pence , have contained very nearly the same quantity of pure sil- ver CH . V. 45 OF COMMODITIES .
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... pence contain half a pound avoirdu- pois of copper , of not the best quality , which , before it is coined , is seldom worth seven pence in silver . But as by the regulation twelve such pence are order- ed to exchange for a shilling ...
... pence contain half a pound avoirdu- pois of copper , of not the best quality , which , before it is coined , is seldom worth seven pence in silver . But as by the regulation twelve such pence are order- ed to exchange for a shilling ...
Сторінка 56
... pence an ounce , therefore , is said to be the mint price of silver in Eng- land , or the quantity of silver coin ... pence , five shillings and five pence , five shillings and six pence , five shillings and seven pence , and very often ...
... pence an ounce , therefore , is said to be the mint price of silver in Eng- land , or the quantity of silver coin ... pence , five shillings and five pence , five shillings and six pence , five shillings and seven pence , and very often ...
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Сторінка 7 - But if they had all wrought separately and independently, and without any of them having been educated to this peculiar business, they certainly could not each of them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day...
Сторінка 19 - It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their selflove, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.
Сторінка 7 - ... which, in some manufactories, are all performed by distinct hands, though in others the same man will sometimes perform two or three of them.
Сторінка 106 - It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe, and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged.
Сторінка 6 - ... could scarce, perhaps, with his utmost industry, make one pin in a day, and certainly could not make twenty. But in the way in which this business is now carried on, not only the whole work is a peculiar trade, but it is divided into a number of branches, of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades.
Сторінка 15 - The shepherd, the sorter of the wool, the woolcomber or carder, the dyer, the scribbler, the spinner, the weaver, the fuller, the dresser, with many others, must all join their different arts in order to complete even this homely production.
Сторінка 66 - As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
Сторінка 94 - But though North America is not yet so rich as England, it is much more thriving, and advancing with much greater rapidity to the further acquisition of riches. The most decisive mark of the prosperity of any country is the increase of the number of its inhabitants.
Сторінка 134 - If in the same neighbourhood, there was any employment evidently either more or less advantageous than the rest, so many people would crowd into it in the one case, and so many would desert it in the other, that its advantages would soon return to the level of other employments.
Сторінка 18 - Whether this propensity be one of those original principles in human nature, of which no further account can be given; or whether, as seems more probable, it be the necessary consequence of the faculties of reason and speech, it belongs not to our present subject to enquire.