An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Bind 3J. Maynard, 1811 |
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Side 7
... considerable effect . The sixth bounty of this kind was that granted by 11th Geo . III . chap . 50 , for the importation of pipe , hogshead , and barrel staves , and heading , from the British plantations . It was granted for ninę years ...
... considerable effect . The sixth bounty of this kind was that granted by 11th Geo . III . chap . 50 , for the importation of pipe , hogshead , and barrel staves , and heading , from the British plantations . It was granted for ninę years ...
Side 8
... considerable duties when imported from any other country . The interest of our American colonies was regarded as the same with that of the mother country . Their wealth was considered as our wealth . Whatever money was sent out to them ...
... considerable duties when imported from any other country . The interest of our American colonies was regarded as the same with that of the mother country . Their wealth was considered as our wealth . Whatever money was sent out to them ...
Side 14
... considerable number of people , was , and still continues to be , most implicitly believed by a much greater number ; by almost all those who are either unacquainted with the woollen trade , or who have not made particular inquiries ...
... considerable number of people , was , and still continues to be , most implicitly believed by a much greater number ; by almost all those who are either unacquainted with the woollen trade , or who have not made particular inquiries ...
Side 17
... considerable , its effect upon the quality , it may perhaps be thought , must necessarily have been very great . The ... considerably during the course even of the present century . The improvement might , perhaps , have been greater if ...
... considerable , its effect upon the quality , it may perhaps be thought , must necessarily have been very great . The ... considerably during the course even of the present century . The improvement might , perhaps , have been greater if ...
Side 18
... considerable revenue to the sovereign . It would hurt the interest of the growers somewhat less than the prohibition , because it would not pro- bably lower the price of wool quite so much . It would afford a sufficient advantage to the ...
... considerable revenue to the sovereign . It would hurt the interest of the growers somewhat less than the prohibition , because it would not pro- bably lower the price of wool quite so much . It would afford a sufficient advantage to the ...
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Side 28 - 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.
Side 67 - ... 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...
Side 329 - By necessaries I understand not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without.
Side 67 - ... the duty of erecting and maintaining certain public works and certain public institutions, which it can never be for the interest of any individual, or small number of individuals, to erect and maintain; because the profit could never repay the expense to any individual or small number of individuals, though it may frequently do much more than repay it to a great society.
Side 261 - The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person.
Side 67 - Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man, or order of men.
Side 141 - The directors of such companies, however, being the managers rather of other people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expected, that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own. Like the stewards of a rich man, they are apt to consider attention to small matters as not for their master's honour, and very easily give themselves a dispensation from having it. Negligence and profusion, therefore,...
Side 261 - 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.
Side 193 - In the progress of the division of labour, the employment of the far greater part of those who live by labour, that is, of the great body of the people, comes to be confined to a few very simple operations ; frequently to one or two.
Side 102 - 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.