An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volumen1Methuen & Company, 1904 - 506 páginas |
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Página 13
... annual exportation of gold and silver from Spain and Portugal accord- ingly is , by all accounts , notwithstanding these restraints , very near equal to the whole annual importation . As the water , however , must always be deeper ...
... annual exportation of gold and silver from Spain and Portugal accord- ingly is , by all accounts , notwithstanding these restraints , very near equal to the whole annual importation . As the water , however , must always be deeper ...
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... annual produce of the land and labour of Spain and Portugal , and to that of other countries . It is said accordingly to be very consider- able , and that you frequently find there a profusion of plate in houses , where there is nothing ...
... annual produce of the land and labour of Spain and Portugal , and to that of other countries . It is said accordingly to be very consider- able , and that you frequently find there a profusion of plate in houses , where there is nothing ...
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... annual produce of their land and labour would immedi- ately be augmented a little , and in a few years would , probably , be augmented a great deal ; their industry being thus relieved from one of the most oppressive burdens which it at ...
... annual produce of their land and labour would immedi- ately be augmented a little , and in a few years would , probably , be augmented a great deal ; their industry being thus relieved from one of the most oppressive burdens which it at ...
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... annual consumption is the greatest , so a greater quantity of industry is annually employed in producing corn than in producing any other commodity . When it first comes from the ground too , it is necessarily divided among a greater ...
... annual consumption is the greatest , so a greater quantity of industry is annually employed in producing corn than in producing any other commodity . When it first comes from the ground too , it is necessarily divided among a greater ...
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... annual produce.2 For the encouragement of tillage , therefore , by providing a market for the home produce , the importance of the inland trade must be to that of the exportation trade as thirty to one . I have no great faith in ...
... annual produce.2 For the encouragement of tillage , therefore , by providing a market for the home produce , the importance of the inland trade must be to that of the exportation trade as thirty to one . I have no great faith in ...
Términos y frases comunes
act of parliament advantage altogether America amount ancient ancient Greece annual produce annuities artificers barley bounty branches Britain British capital carried cent clergy colony trade commerce commodities consequence considerable consumer consumption corn Corn Laws cultivation customs debt duties East Indies empire employed employment encourage England equal established Europe excise expence exportation farmer foreign trade France frequently fund gold and silver greater home market importation imposed increase industry interest joint stock company kind labour land land-tax landlord less levied maintain malt manner manufactures ment mercantile mercantile system merchants monopoly nations naturally necessarily necessary obliged occasion ordinary paid parliament particular payment perhaps Portugal pound weight present principal profit proportion provinces public revenue quantity raise reads render rent Royal African Company Scotland seignorage sell shillings society sort sovereign Spain standing army supposed tion whole wine
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Página 267 - The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.
Página 159 - Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production ; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
Página 185 - ... the duty of protecting the society from the violence and invasion of other independent societies ; secondly, the duty of protecting, as far as possible, every member of the society from the injustice or oppression of every other member of it...
Página 184 - The sovereign is completely discharged from a duty, in the attempting to perform which he must always be exposed to innumerable delusions, and for the proper performance of which no human wisdom or knowledge could ever be sufficient; the duty of superintending the industry of private people, and of directing it towards the employments most suitable to the interest of the society.
Página 114 - To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers.
Página 273 - The more they are instructed, the less liable they are to the delusions of enthusiasm and superstition, which, among ignorant nations, frequently occasion the most dreadful disorders. An instructed and intelligent people, besides, are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.
Página 312 - Fourthly, by subjecting the people to the frequent visits and the odious examination of the tax-gatherers, it may expose them to much unnecessary trouble, vexation, and oppression; and though vexation is not, strictly speaking, expense, it is certainly equivalent to the expense at which every man would be willing to redeem himself from it.
Página 207 - Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none .at alL...
Página 152 - To hurt in any degree the interest of any one order of citizens, for no other purpose but to promote that of some other, is evidently contrary to that justice and equality of treatment which the sovereign owes to all the different orders of his subjects.
Página 246 - The only trades which it seems possible for a joint stock company to carry on successfully, without an exclusive privilege, are those, of which all the operations are capable of being reduced to what is called a routine, or to such a uniformity of method as admits of little or no variation.