The Works of Adam Smith: The nature and causes of the wealth of nationsT. Cadell, 1811 |
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... prefent fit for a fovereign to make to a fovereign , was , a few years ago , the ornament of an ale- house at Dunfermline . In fome ancient cities , which either have been long stationary , or have gone fomewhat to decay , you will ...
... prefent fit for a fovereign to make to a fovereign , was , a few years ago , the ornament of an ale- house at Dunfermline . In fome ancient cities , which either have been long stationary , or have gone fomewhat to decay , you will ...
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... prefent inhabitants . If you go into thofe houfes too , you will frequently find many excellent , though antiquated pieces of furniture , which are still very fit for ufe , and which could as little have been made for them . Noble pa ...
... prefent inhabitants . If you go into thofe houfes too , you will frequently find many excellent , though antiquated pieces of furniture , which are still very fit for ufe , and which could as little have been made for them . Noble pa ...
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... prefent en- joyment ; which , though fometimes violent and very difficult to be restrained , is in general only momentary and occafional . But the principle which prompts to fave , is the defire of bettering our condition , a defire ...
... prefent en- joyment ; which , though fometimes violent and very difficult to be restrained , is in general only momentary and occafional . But the principle which prompts to fave , is the defire of bettering our condition , a defire ...
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... prefent than it was either at the reftoration or at the revolution . The capital , therefore , annually employed in cultivating this land , and in maintaining this labour , muft like- wife be much greater . In the midst of all the ...
... prefent than it was either at the reftoration or at the revolution . The capital , therefore , annually employed in cultivating this land , and in maintaining this labour , muft like- wife be much greater . In the midst of all the ...
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... prefent century . In all the great countries of Europe , however , much good land ftill remains uncultivated , and the greater part of what is cultivated , is far from be- ing improved to the degree of which it is ca- pable ...
... prefent century . In all the great countries of Europe , however , much good land ftill remains uncultivated , and the greater part of what is cultivated , is far from be- ing improved to the degree of which it is ca- pable ...
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Página 123 - ... every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it.
Página 1 - THERE is one sort of labour which adds to the value of the subject upon which it is bestowed: there is another which has no such effect. The former, as it produces a value, may be called productive; the latter, unproductive labour.
Página 123 - By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security ; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain; and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
Página 16 - It tends therefore to increase the exchangeable value of the annual produce of the land and labour of the country. It puts into motion an additional quantity of industry, which gives an additional value to the annual produce.
Página 336 - It is a very singular government in which every member of the administration wishes to get out of the country, and consequently to have done with the government, as soon as he can, and to whose interest, the day after he has left it and carried his whole fortune with him,* it is perfectly indifferent though the whole country was swallowed up by an earthquake.
Página 125 - Whether the advantages which one country has over another be natural or acquired, is in this respect of no consequence. As long as the one country has those advantages, and the other wants them, it will always be more advantageous for the latter rather to buy of the former than to make.
Página 125 - 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 22 - The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition, the principle from which public and national, as well as private opulence is originally derived...
Página 35 - The capital employed in agriculture, therefore, not only puts into motion a greater quantity of productive labour than any equal capital employed in manufactures, but, in proportion too to the quantity of productive labour which it employs, it adds a much greater value to the annual produce of the land and labour of the country, to the real wealth and revenue of its inhabitants. Of all the ways in which a capital can be employed, it is by far the most advantageous to the society.
Página 146 - Commerce, which ought naturally to be, among nations as among individuals, a bond of union and friendship, has become the most fertile source of discord and animosity.