 | Adam Smith - 1801 - 374 páginas
...fyftem which reprefents agriculture as the fole fource of the revenue and wealth of every country , feem to have adopted this proverbial maxim; and as in the plan of Mr. Colbert the induftry of the towns was certainly over - valued in comparifon with that of the country... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1809 - 514 páginas
...to bestow upon the mercantile or commercial system. That system which represents the produce of land as the sole source of the revenue and wealth of every country, has, so far as I know, never been adopted by any nation, and it at present exists only in the speculations... | |
 | Robert Torrens - 1814 - 684 páginas
...arguments made, when I first heard them, mature consideration has confirmed. I had long been a believer in the system which represents agriculture as the sole...source of the revenue and wealth of every country. You have wrought a complete revolution in my opi.nions. You have convinced me that this system not... | |
 | 1815 - 698 páginas
...their neighbours ; from these principles, too, it is that a system which represents the produce of land as the sole source of the revenue and wealth of every country, has never been adopted by any nation, and has only existed, as before mentioned, in the speculations... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1836 - 538 páginas
...to bestow upon the mercantile or commercial system. That system which represents the produce of land as the sole source of the revenue and wealth of every country has, so far as I know, never been adopted by any nation, and it at present exists only in the speculations... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1838 - 476 páginas
...experience and acuteness in the examination of which represents agriculture as the sole source of thu revenue and wealth of every country, seem to have...adopted this proverbial maxim ; and, as in the plan of Mr. Colbert, the industry of the towns was certainly overvalued in comparison with that of the country,... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1869 - 616 páginas
...proverb, in order to make it straight you must bend it as much the other. The French philosophers, who have proposed the system which represents agriculture...certainly overvalued in comparison with that of the county, so in their '</ system it seems to be as certainly undervalued. The different orders of people... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1869 - 870 páginas
...proverb, in order to make it straight you must bend it as much the other. The French philosophers, who have proposed the system which represents agriculture as the sole source of the revenue und wealth of every country, seem to have adopted this proverbial maxim ; and as in the plan of M.... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1875 - 808 páginas
...proverb, in order to make it straight you must bend it as much the other. The French philosophers, who have proposed the system which represents agriculture...the sole source of the revenue and wealth of every '•ountrv. 526 SCHEMES OF M. COLBERT, MINISTER OF LOUIS XIV. seem to have adopted this proverbial... | |
 | Wilhelm Neurath - 1880 - 538 páginas
...must bent it as much the other. The french philosophers, who have proposed the system which representa agriculture as the sole source of the revenue and...adopted this proverbial maxim; and, as in the plan of Mr. G'olhert, the industry of the towns was certainly ovur valued in comparison with that of the countiy,... | |
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If the rod be bent too much one way, says the proverb, in order to make it straight you must bend it as much the other. The French philosophers, who have proposed the system which represents agriculture as the sole source of the revenue and wealth of... 
