The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart, Volume 9T. Constable and Company [etc. ], 1856 |
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Página 46
... possessed in the past age a great plenty of oak . Why ? Because cultivation was in a barbarous state . It is the improvement of the kingdom , a thousand times more valuable than any timber can ever be , that has wrought the very good ...
... possessed in the past age a great plenty of oak . Why ? Because cultivation was in a barbarous state . It is the improvement of the kingdom , a thousand times more valuable than any timber can ever be , that has wrought the very good ...
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... possess themselves of the whole crop of an extensive country , Mr. Smith acknowledges that it might be their interest to deal with it as the Dutch are said to do with the spiceries of the Moluccas , to destroy or throw away a ...
... possess themselves of the whole crop of an extensive country , Mr. Smith acknowledges that it might be their interest to deal with it as the Dutch are said to do with the spiceries of the Moluccas , to destroy or throw away a ...
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... possess that force of character which is necessary for reducing it to practice . In such cases we naturally strive to disbelieve what we have no inclination to carry into effect ; and it is only the few who feel that courage which ...
... possess that force of character which is necessary for reducing it to practice . In such cases we naturally strive to disbelieve what we have no inclination to carry into effect ; and it is only the few who feel that courage which ...
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... possessed by that kingdom , above thirty times , to carry it ? Instead of the common crop equalling two years ' consumption , it certainly does not equal thirteen months ' common consumption ; that is , such a consumption as takes place ...
... possessed by that kingdom , above thirty times , to carry it ? Instead of the common crop equalling two years ' consumption , it certainly does not equal thirteen months ' common consumption ; that is , such a consumption as takes place ...
Página 85
... possesses little power but what is founded on public opinion . On the contrary , it appears from the fact , that an export or an import trade , however trifling the effects which they might be expected a priori to produce , may not only ...
... possesses little power but what is founded on public opinion . On the contrary , it appears from the fact , that an export or an import trade , however trifling the effects which they might be expected a priori to produce , may not only ...
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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.