 | Adam Smith - 2004 - 260 páginas
...would be due to the time employed about it. Such talents can seldom be acquired but in consequence of long application, and the superior value of their...and labour which must be spent in acquiring them. In the advanced state of society, allowances of this kind, for superior hardship and superior skill,... | |
 | Michael Lewis - 2007 - 1476 páginas
...would be due to the time employed about it. Such talents can seldom be acquired but in consequence of long application, and the superior value of their...more than a reasonable compensation for the time and labor which must be spent in acquiring them. In the advanced state of society, allowances of this kind,... | |
 | 1824 - 996 páginas
...would be due to the time employed about it. Such talents can seldom be acquired but in consequence of long application, and the superior value of their...and labour which must be spent in acquiring them. In the advanced state of society, allowances of this kind, for superior hardship and superior skill,... | |
 | 1844 - 630 páginas
...and dexterity required by some species of labour gives an additional value to its produce, which is no more than a reasonable compensation for the time...and labour which must be spent in acquiring them." Consequently, the retail Druggist, in calculating the cost of his stock, and the profit to which he... | |
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Or if the one species of labour requires an uncommon degree of dexterity and ingenuity, the esteem which men have for such talents, will naturally give a value to their produce, superior to what would be due to the time employed about it. Such talents... 
