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... produce of its manufactures ; or , last of all , some part of its annual rude produce . The gold and silver which can properly be considered as accumulated or stored up in any country , may be distinguished into three parts : first ...
... produce of its manufactures ; or , last of all , some part of its annual rude produce . The gold and silver which can properly be considered as accumulated or stored up in any country , may be distinguished into three parts : first ...
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... produce even of gold and silver which could have supported it . The whole gold and silver annually imported into ... produces a great annual surplus of such manufactures , which are usually exported to foreign countries , may carry on ...
... produce even of gold and silver which could have supported it . The whole gold and silver annually imported into ... produces a great annual surplus of such manufactures , which are usually exported to foreign countries , may carry on ...
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... produce of the soil . The expense of sending such a quantity of it to a foreign country as might purchase the pay and provisions of an army , would be too great . Few countries too produce much more rude produce than what is sufficient ...
... produce of the soil . The expense of sending such a quantity of it to a foreign country as might purchase the pay and provisions of an army , would be too great . Few countries too produce much more rude produce than what is sufficient ...
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... 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 the society . These ...
... 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 the society . These ...
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... produce may be of the greatest possible value . The produce of industry is what it adds to the subject or materials upon which it is employed . In proportion as the value of this produce is great or small , so will likewise be the ...
... produce may be of the greatest possible value . The produce of industry is what it adds to the subject or materials upon which it is employed . In proportion as the value of this produce is great or small , so will likewise be the ...
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Página 314 - Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as Little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state.
Página 279 - The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too are, perhaps, always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. 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.
Página 156 - 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 279 - 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 209 - ... 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.
Página 160 - 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 18 - 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 15 - 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.
Página 15 - 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 the 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.
Página 10 - It carries out that surplus part of the produce of their land and labour for which there is no demand among them, and brings back in return for it something else for which there is a demand. It gives a value to their superfluities, by exchanging them for something else, which may satisfy a part of their wants, and increase their enjoyments.