The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart, Volume 9T. Constable and Company [etc. ], 1856 |
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... course , where there was perfect liberty , and where every man was perfectly free to choose what occupation he thought proper . Every man's interest would prompt him to the advantageous , and to shun the dis- advantageous employment ...
... course , where there was perfect liberty , and where every man was perfectly free to choose what occupation he thought proper . Every man's interest would prompt him to the advantageous , and to shun the dis- advantageous employment ...
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... course reckoned that the country was in a prosperous state , but if it was otherwise , the country was deemed to be declining . " For the ascertaining of the value of the commodities sent out and received , two methods were had recourse ...
... course reckoned that the country was in a prosperous state , but if it was otherwise , the country was deemed to be declining . " For the ascertaining of the value of the commodities sent out and received , two methods were had recourse ...
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... course . Most of the statutes , or acts , edicts , arrêts , and placarts of parliaments , princes , and states , for regulating , directing , or restraining of trade , have , we think , been either political blunders , or jobs ob ...
... course . Most of the statutes , or acts , edicts , arrêts , and placarts of parliaments , princes , and states , for regulating , directing , or restraining of trade , have , we think , been either political blunders , or jobs ob ...
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... course of an incidental or episodi- cal discussion . The trade of the corn merchant is divided by Mr. Smith into four different branches , which , though they may sometimes be * [ Wealth of Nations , Book IV . chap . v .; Vol . II . p ...
... course of an incidental or episodi- cal discussion . The trade of the corn merchant is divided by Mr. Smith into four different branches , which , though they may sometimes be * [ Wealth of Nations , Book IV . chap . v .; Vol . II . p ...
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... course of years prior to 1765 , the proportion of the average quantity of all sorts of grain imported into Great Britain , to that of all sorts of grain consumed , does not exceed that of one to five hundred and seventy . The average ...
... course of years prior to 1765 , the proportion of the average quantity of all sorts of grain imported into Great Britain , to that of all sorts of grain consumed , does not exceed that of one to five hundred and seventy . The average ...
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Página 25 - 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 388 - If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
Página 26 - 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 27 - By means of glasses, hotbeds, and hot-walls, very good grapes can be raised- in Scotland, and very good wine too can be made of them at about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be brought from foreign countries. Would it be a reasonable law to prohibit the importation of all foreign wines merely to encourage the making of claret and burgundy in Scotland...
Página 26 - It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy.
Página 223 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.
Página 222 - In the observation or neglect of this maxim consists what is called the equality or inequality of taxation.
Página 25 - No regulation of commerce can increase the quantity of industry in any society beyond what its capital can maintain. It can only divert a part of it into a direction into which it might not otherwise have gone...
Página 86 - ... seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board...
Página 222 - Every tax ought to be levied at the time, or in the manner, in which it is most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it.