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... Public Revenue of the Society PART I. Of the Funds or Sources of Revenue which may peculiarly belong to the Sovereign or Commonwealth . PART II . Of Taxes • 404 404 • 413 Page ARTICLE I. Taxes upon Rents ; Taxes upon the CONTENTS . vii.
... Public Revenue of the Society PART I. Of the Funds or Sources of Revenue which may peculiarly belong to the Sovereign or Commonwealth . PART II . Of Taxes • 404 404 • 413 Page ARTICLE I. Taxes upon Rents ; Taxes upon the CONTENTS . vii.
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... funds which maintained the foreign wars of the present century , the most expensive perhaps which history records ... fund . More than two - thirds of this expense was laid out in foreign countries ; in Germany , Portugal , America ...
... funds which maintained the foreign wars of the present century , the most expensive perhaps which history records ... fund . More than two - thirds of this expense was laid out in foreign countries ; in Germany , Portugal , America ...
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... funds destined for more necessary expenses . What Dercyllidas said of the court of Persia may be applied to that of several European princes , that he saw there much splendour but little strength , and many servants but few soldiers ...
... funds destined for more necessary expenses . What Dercyllidas said of the court of Persia may be applied to that of several European princes , that he saw there much splendour but little strength , and many servants but few soldiers ...
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... funds destined for the maintenance of productive labour receive no augmentation from the revenue of those who ought naturally to augment them the most . The capital of the country , instead of increasing , gradually dwindles away , and ...
... funds destined for the maintenance of productive labour receive no augmentation from the revenue of those who ought naturally to augment them the most . The capital of the country , instead of increasing , gradually dwindles away , and ...
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... land - tax , and the sums which were every year borrowed from the sinking fund . The Spanish war which began in 1739 was principally a colony quarrel . Its principal object was to CHAP . VII . 197 THE WEALTH OF NATIONS .
... land - tax , and the sums which were every year borrowed from the sinking fund . The Spanish war which began in 1739 was principally a colony quarrel . Its principal object was to CHAP . VII . 197 THE WEALTH OF NATIONS .
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Página 244 - 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.
Página 273 - ... the duty of protecting the society from the violence and invasion of other independent societies; secondly, the duty of protecting, as far as possible, every member of the society from the injustice or oppression of every other member of it...
Página 29 - What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy it of them with some part of the produce of our own industry, employed in a way in which we have some advantage.
Página 413 - The expense of government to the individuals of a great nation is like the expense of management to the joint tenants of a great estate, who are all obliged to contribute in proportion to their respective interests in the estate. In the observation or neglect of this maxim consists what is called the equality or inequality of taxation.
Página 196 - 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.
Página 365 - He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. The torpor of his mind renders him, not only incapable of relishing or bearing a part in any rational conversation, but of conceiving any generous, noble, or tender sentiment, and consequently of forming any just judgment concerning many even of the ordinary duties of private life.
Página 208 - 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.
Página 44 - To expect, indeed, that the freedom of trade should ever be entirely restored in Great Britain, is as absurd as to expect that an Oceana or Utopia should ever be established in it. Not only the prejudices of the public, but what is much more unconquerable, the private interests of many individuals, irresistibly oppose it.
Página 29 - What is the species of domestic industry which his capital can employ, and of which the produce is likely to be of the greatest value, every individual, it is evident, can, in his local 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...
Página 273 - ... the duty of erecting and maintaining certain public works and certain public institutions, which it can never be for the interest of any individual, or small number of individuals, to erect and maintain; because the profit could never repay the expense to any individual or small number of individuals, though it may frequently do much more than repay it to a great society.