An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. With a comm. by the author of 'England and America' (E.G. Wakefield).1836 |
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... pounds , contains in it the price , not only of eighty pounds weight of wool , but sometimes of several thousand weight of corn , the maintenance of the different working people , and of their immediate employers . The corn which could ...
... pounds , contains in it the price , not only of eighty pounds weight of wool , but sometimes of several thousand weight of corn , the maintenance of the different working people , and of their immediate employers . The corn which could ...
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... pounds a year , carried , in 1745 , eight hundred of his own people into the rebellion with him . The introduction of the feudal law , so far from extending , may be regarded as an attempt to mode- rate the authority of the great ...
... pounds a year , carried , in 1745 , eight hundred of his own people into the rebellion with him . The introduction of the feudal law , so far from extending , may be regarded as an attempt to mode- rate the authority of the great ...
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... , should employ a capital of two or three thousand pounds in the purchase and cultivation of a small piece of land , might indeed expect to live very happily , and very independently , but must bid 62 [ BOOK III . COUNTRY IMPROVED BY.
... , should employ a capital of two or three thousand pounds in the purchase and cultivation of a small piece of land , might indeed expect to live very happily , and very independently , but must bid 62 [ BOOK III . COUNTRY IMPROVED BY.
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... pounds is often found a sufficient stock to begin a plantation with . The purchase and improvement of uncultivated land is there the most profitable employment of the smallest as well as of the greatest capitals , and the most direct ...
... pounds is often found a sufficient stock to begin a plantation with . The purchase and improvement of uncultivated land is there the most profitable employment of the smallest as well as of the greatest capitals , and the most direct ...
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... pound of tea , however , is about a hundred times the bulk of one of the highest prices , sixteen shil- lings , that is commonly paid for it in silver , and more than two thousand times the bulk of the same price in gold , and ...
... pound of tea , however , is about a hundred times the bulk of one of the highest prices , sixteen shil- lings , that is commonly paid for it in silver , and more than two thousand times the bulk of the same price in gold , and ...
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Стр. 422 - Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production ; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
Стр. 104 - ... 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.
Стр. 348 - To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers.
Стр. 90 - By means of it, the narrowness of the home market does not hinder the division of labour in any particular branch of art or manufacture from being carried to the highest perfection. By opening a more extensive market for whatever part of the produce of their labour may exceed the home consumption, it encourages them to improve its productive powers, and to augment its annual produce to the utmost, and thereby to increase the real revenue and wealth of society
Стр. 104 - 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...
Стр. 100 - Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of society, which he has in view. But the study of his own advantage naturally or, rather, necessarily leads him to prefer that employment which is most advantageous to the society.
Стр. 92 - The discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind.
Стр. 114 - The first is, when some particular sort of industry is necessary for the defence of the country.
Стр. 125 - Were those high duties and prohibitions taken away all at once, cheaper foreign goods of the same kind might be poured so fast into the home market, as to deprive all at once many thousands of our people of their ordinary employment and means of subsistence.
Стр. 117 - As defence, however, is of much more importance than opulence, the act of Navigation is, perhaps, the wisest of all the commercial regulations of England.