...been said of the levity and inconstancy of human nature, it appears evidently from experience that a man is of all sorts of luggage the most difficult to be transported" (WN 92). There are also moments that partake of the ambiguity between irony and plain description entailed...

...emigrating, especially if he is temperamentally disinclined to undertake risks. Adam Smith has said that "Man is of all sorts of luggage the most difficult to be transported." On the other hand, the lust for adventure may lead enterprising youths to break their way in countries...

...allow migration pressures to ebb naturally. As Adam Smith observed more than two hundred years ago, "Man is of all sorts of luggage the most difficult to be transported." The labor market is complex in every society because workers cannot be separated from their work, making...

...has been said of the levity and inconstancy of human nature, it appears evidently from experience, that man is, of all sorts of luggage, the most difficult to be transported. If the laboring poor, therefore, can maintain their families in those parts of the kingdom where the...

...say, but some of the later ones did give serious thought to the matter. Adam Smith long ago observed that man is "of all sorts of luggage the most difficult to be transported." 20 Despite the vast changes in the means of transportation since 1776, Smith's statement is still true,...

...Smith, it is true, has told us that, ' after ' all that has been said of the levity of human nature, a man is, ' of all sorts of luggage, the most difficult to be transported.' But since Adam Smith wrote, everything relating to the transporting of men (except as regards language,)...

...all parts of the Dominion. Already the service has learned the truth of Adam Smith's dictum that "a man is of all sorts of luggage the most difficult to be transported." Again, the railways must be assured by actual evidence that workers are not being despatched long distances...

...been said of the levity and inconstancy of human nature, it appears evidently, from experience, that a man is, of all sorts of luggage, the most difficult to be transported.'* This observation, however true of Europeans, is re* Wealth of Nations. B. 1. chap. viii. markably contradicted...

...been said of the levity and inconstancy of human nature, it appears evidently from experience that a man is of all sorts of luggage the most difficult to be transported, (i, 77.) (iii) Even private bankers in Edinburgh give four per cent upon their promissory notes, of...