An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsT. Nelson and sons, 1884 - 445 páginas |
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... England . The iron , and forges every part of the nail : in corn - lands of England , however , are better forging the head , too , he is obliged to change cultivated than those of France , and the corn - his tools . The different ...
... England . The iron , and forges every part of the nail : in corn - lands of England , however , are better forging the head , too , he is obliged to change cultivated than those of France , and the corn - his tools . The different ...
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... England till the countries that have made any considerable ad- 18th of Henry the VIII . The French livre vances towards improvement , to affix a public contained , in the time of Charlemagne , a stamp upon certain quantities of such ...
... England till the countries that have made any considerable ad- 18th of Henry the VIII . The French livre vances towards improvement , to affix a public contained , in the time of Charlemagne , a stamp upon certain quantities of such ...
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... England in the time of the Saxons ; sometimes be of use to compare the different but there was little gold coined till the time real values of a particular commodity at dif- of Edward III , nor any copper till that of ferent times and ...
... England in the time of the Saxons ; sometimes be of use to compare the different but there was little gold coined till the time real values of a particular commodity at dif- of Edward III , nor any copper till that of ferent times and ...
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... England , no duty or seignorage ing to the custom of keeping accounts , and of is paid upon the coinage , and he who carries expressing the amount of all great and small a pound weight or an ounce weight of stand- sums rather in silver ...
... England , no duty or seignorage ing to the custom of keeping accounts , and of is paid upon the coinage , and he who carries expressing the amount of all great and small a pound weight or an ounce weight of stand- sums rather in silver ...
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... England , or probable that a like reformation will do s the quantity of silver coin which the mint now . gives in return for standard silver bullion . Were the silver coin brought back as near Before the reformation of the gold coin ...
... England , or probable that a like reformation will do s the quantity of silver coin which the mint now . gives in return for standard silver bullion . Were the silver coin brought back as near Before the reformation of the gold coin ...
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Página 13 - I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good. It is an affectation, indeed, not very common among merchants, and very few words need be employed in dissuading them from 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 87 - 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 87 - 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 297 - 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 297 - The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person.
Página 203 - 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. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers ; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers.
Página 3 - That in the university of Oxford, the greater part of the public professors have for these many years given up altogether even the pretence of teaching.
Página 3 - Many improvements have been made by the ingenuity of the makers of the machines, when to make them became the business of a peculiar trade ; and some by that of those who are called philosophers or men of speculation, whose trade it is not to do anything, but to observe everything ; and who, upon that account, are often capable of combining together the powers of the most distant and dissimilar objects.
Página 8 - ... without the assistance and co-operation of many thousands, the very meanest person in a civilized country could not be provided, even according to what we very falsely imagine, the easy and simple manner in which he is commonly accommodated.