The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart, Volume 9T. Constable and Company [etc. ], 1856 |
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Página 57
... grain would furnish us with abundant proof , if proofs were wanting , of the extreme misery of those times , in which the only buyers of grain were the consumers . Five guineas a quarter is a price sufficiently grievous , even at a ...
... grain would furnish us with abundant proof , if proofs were wanting , of the extreme misery of those times , in which the only buyers of grain were the consumers . Five guineas a quarter is a price sufficiently grievous , even at a ...
Página 59
... grain in proportion , was declared lawful to all persons not being fore- stallers , that is , not selling again in the same market within three months . All the freedom which the trade of the inland corn - dealer has ever yet enjoyed ...
... grain in proportion , was declared lawful to all persons not being fore- stallers , that is , not selling again in the same market within three months . All the freedom which the trade of the inland corn - dealer has ever yet enjoyed ...
Página 63
... grain . The Minister of Finance having requested , on this occasion , the advice of the Intendants of the different Provinces , M. Turgot addressed to him Seven Letters , which are said to have formed a complete treatise on this ...
... grain . The Minister of Finance having requested , on this occasion , the advice of the Intendants of the different Provinces , M. Turgot addressed to him Seven Letters , which are said to have formed a complete treatise on this ...
Página 64
... grain ; -in one word , by the establishment of a certain and constant market , to secure the proprietors , the cultivators , the government , and the people at large , against all risk of losing any part of the produce of the land , as ...
... grain ; -in one word , by the establishment of a certain and constant market , to secure the proprietors , the cultivators , the government , and the people at large , against all risk of losing any part of the produce of the land , as ...
Página 65
... grain under the same prohibitions which had been enacted by the Abbé Terray . " His Majesty reserving to himself the satisfac- tion of bestowing marks of his special protection on such of his subjects as may import foreign grain into ...
... grain under the same prohibitions which had been enacted by the Abbé Terray . " His Majesty reserving to himself the satisfac- tion of bestowing marks of his special protection on such of his subjects as may import foreign grain into ...
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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.