The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart, Том 9T. Constable and Company [etc. ], 1856 |
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... never have made the progress we have made in this very important article of manufacture . The price , in fact , of every article which we purchase from the north , is regulated by the price which the same article could be raised at in ...
... never have made the progress we have made in this very important article of manufacture . The price , in fact , of every article which we purchase from the north , is regulated by the price which the same article could be raised at in ...
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... never should exceed the effectual demand ; and it is the interest of all other people that it never should fall short of that demand . ” * Notwithstanding , however , this natural tendency in the supply to adjust itself to the demand ...
... never should exceed the effectual demand ; and it is the interest of all other people that it never should fall short of that demand . ” * Notwithstanding , however , this natural tendency in the supply to adjust itself to the demand ...
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... never choose Holland to dwell in , being so chargeable a place , and where they have so little interest for their money . And for those who are less wealthy , it is well known , that no man from abroad will come to dwell or continue in ...
... never choose Holland to dwell in , being so chargeable a place , and where they have so little interest for their money . And for those who are less wealthy , it is well known , that no man from abroad will come to dwell or continue in ...
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... never prevented their exportation , as they come into these countries in greater abundance than their own necessities require . It has been computed that the Lisbon packet brings over to Britain on an average no less than £ 50,000 worth ...
... never prevented their exportation , as they come into these countries in greater abundance than their own necessities require . It has been computed that the Lisbon packet brings over to Britain on an average no less than £ 50,000 worth ...
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... never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy . The tailor does not attempt to make his own shoes , but buys them of the shoemaker . The shoe- maker does not attempt to make his own clothes , but ...
... never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy . The tailor does not attempt to make his own shoes , but buys them of the shoemaker . The shoe- maker does not attempt to make his own clothes , but ...
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Сторінка 25 - By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security ; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
Сторінка 388 - If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
Сторінка 26 - The statesman, who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.
Сторінка 27 - By means of glasses, hotbeds, and hot-walls, very good grapes can be raised- in Scotland, and very good wine too can be made of them at about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be brought from foreign countries. Would it be a reasonable law to prohibit the importation of all foreign wines merely to encourage the making of claret and burgundy in Scotland...
Сторінка 26 - It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy.
Сторінка 223 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.
Сторінка 222 - In the observation or neglect of this maxim consists what is called the equality or inequality of taxation.
Сторінка 25 - No regulation of commerce can increase the quantity of industry in any society beyond what its capital can maintain. It can only divert a part of it into a direction into which it might not otherwise have gone...
Сторінка 86 - ... seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board...
Сторінка 222 - Every tax ought to be levied at the time, or in the manner, in which it is most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it.