An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Том 1J. Maynard, 1811 |
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... superior degree of illustration . The period of thirteen years , which I spent as a member of that society , I remember as by far the most useful , and there- fore as by far the happiest and most honourable period of my life ; and now ...
... superior degree of illustration . The period of thirteen years , which I spent as a member of that society , I remember as by far the most useful , and there- fore as by far the happiest and most honourable period of my life ; and now ...
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... superior the school of the Scotch professor is to that of the French philosophers , with regard to the practical utility , as well as to the application of its precepts . Labour is a power of which man is the machine ; and , of course ...
... superior the school of the Scotch professor is to that of the French philosophers , with regard to the practical utility , as well as to the application of its precepts . Labour is a power of which man is the machine ; and , of course ...
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... superior opulence and improvement of the latter country . The corn of France is , in the corn provinces , fully as good , and in most years nearly about the same price with the corn of England , though , in opulence and improve- ment ...
... superior opulence and improvement of the latter country . The corn of France is , in the corn provinces , fully as good , and in most years nearly about the same price with the corn of England , though , in opulence and improve- ment ...
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... superior to those of France , and much cheaper too in the same degree of goodness . In Poland there are said to be scarce any manufactures of any kind , a few of those coarser household manufactures ex- cepted , without which no country ...
... superior to those of France , and much cheaper too in the same degree of goodness . In Poland there are said to be scarce any manufactures of any kind , a few of those coarser household manufactures ex- cepted , without which no country ...
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... superior risk , or the difference of the insurance between land and water - carriage . Were there no other communication between those two places , therefore , but by land - carriage , as no goods could be transported from the one to ...
... superior risk , or the difference of the insurance between land and water - carriage . Were there no other communication between those two places , therefore , but by land - carriage , as no goods could be transported from the one to ...
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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.