 | 1891 - 790 стор.
...trace them in these tariffs except in two or three prominent cases. 1 "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 ittoition, but assume an authority which could... | |
 | Thomas S. Blair - 1896 - 596 стор.
...prohibitions was indispensible to the commercial prosperity of the country, Adam Smith thus argues: "'This is to direct private people in what manner they ought...useless or a hurtful regulation. If the produce of player, distinguishing both from the method of the abstract reasoner, is this, namely, that they concern... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 498 стор.
...situation, judge much better than any statesman or lawgiver can do for him. 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... | |
 | 1901 - 686 стор.
...and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it. To give the monopoly of the home market to the produce of domestic industry, in any particular...hurtful regulation. If the produce of domestic can be brought there as cheap as that of foreign industry, the regulation is evidently useless. If it cannot,... | |
 | Joseph Shield Nicholson - 1903 - 568 стор.
...weakness and incapacity of governments. His final opinion is that the statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capital, is guilty of dangerous folly and presumption. This opinion is confirmed and illustrated by... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 484 стор.
...situation, judge much better than any statesman or lawgiver can do for him. 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... | |
 | Joseph Shield Nicholson - 1909 - 328 стор.
...very few words need be employed in dissuading them from it." ..." 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... | |
 | Joseph Shield Nicholson - 1909 - 324 стор.
...that sovereigns make bad traders is only a variant on the betterknown proposition that for the state to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals must in almost all cases be either a useless or a hurtful regulation. § 8. Adam Smith's Appreciation... | |
 | Walton Hale Hamilton - 1916 - 914 стор.
...situation, judge much better than any statesman or lawgiver can do for him. 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... | |
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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... 
