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... reason to believe , have considerable influence on the exchange with some neighbouring countries . And such of those smuggled goods as have been entered for exportation , perhaps over and over again , thus make great additions to the ...
... reason to believe , have considerable influence on the exchange with some neighbouring countries . And such of those smuggled goods as have been entered for exportation , perhaps over and over again , thus make great additions to the ...
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... reason- ing will also hold good with the trade to Hudson's Bay , and several others , wherein the excess of the imports is the real profit , and a continuation of favourable balances would , in a few years ruin the trade . In some ...
... reason- ing will also hold good with the trade to Hudson's Bay , and several others , wherein the excess of the imports is the real profit , and a continuation of favourable balances would , in a few years ruin the trade . In some ...
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... reasons with its advocates on their own fundamental principle . I now proceed to a still more important part of Mr. Smith's argument , in which he endeavours to show that the whole doctrine of the balance of trade is absurd . It is now ...
... reasons with its advocates on their own fundamental principle . I now proceed to a still more important part of Mr. Smith's argument , in which he endeavours to show that the whole doctrine of the balance of trade is absurd . It is now ...
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... reason is obvious . " An oak must grow an hundred years or more before it comes to maturity ; but the profits arising from tillage or pasture are more certain and im- mediate , and perhaps as great ; it cannot , therefore , be expected ...
... reason is obvious . " An oak must grow an hundred years or more before it comes to maturity ; but the profits arising from tillage or pasture are more certain and im- mediate , and perhaps as great ; it cannot , therefore , be expected ...
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... reason than by the temper of our minds . Most understandings are able to perceive the truth , but few possess that force of character which is necessary for reducing it to practice . In such cases we naturally strive to disbelieve what ...
... reason than by the temper of our minds . Most understandings are able to perceive the truth , but few possess that force of character which is necessary for reducing it to practice . In such cases we naturally strive to disbelieve what ...
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Página 387 - 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 24 - ... 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. Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was no part of it. By pursuing his own interest, he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it.
Página 25 - 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 24 - 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 222 - 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 460 - Sed cum omnia ratione animoque lustraris, omnium societatum nulla est gravior, nulla carior quam ea, quae cum re publica est uni cuique nostrum. Cari sunt parentes, cari liberi, propinqui, familiares, sed omnes omnium caritates patria una complexa est, pro qua quis bonus dubitet mortem oppetere, si ei sit profuturus?
Página 85 - ... 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 207 - And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he...
Página 207 - Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.
Página 7 - When the price of any commodity is neither more nor less than what is sufficient to pay the rent of the land, the wages of the labour, and the profits of the stock employed in raising, preparing, and bringing to market, according to their natural rates, the commodity is then sold for what may be called its natural price.