The Works of Adam Smith, Volumen2T. Cadell, 1812 - 2731 páginas |
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... metal button , is fubdivided , are all of them much more fimple , and the dexterity of the person , of whose life it has been the fole business to perform them , is usually much greater . The rapidity with which some of the operations ...
... metal button , is fubdivided , are all of them much more fimple , and the dexterity of the person , of whose life it has been the fole business to perform them , is usually much greater . The rapidity with which some of the operations ...
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... metals above every other commodity . Metals can not only be kept with as little lofs as any other commodity , scarce any thing being less perishable than they are , but they can likewife , without any loss , be divided into any number ...
... metals above every other commodity . Metals can not only be kept with as little lofs as any other commodity , scarce any thing being less perishable than they are , but they can likewife , without any loss , be divided into any number ...
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... metals to give in exchange for it , he could easily proportion the quantity of the metal to the precife quantity of the commodity which he had immediate oсса- fion for . Different metals have been made use of by different nations for ...
... metals to give in exchange for it , he could easily proportion the quantity of the metal to the precife quantity of the commodity which he had immediate oсса- fion for . Different metals have been made use of by different nations for ...
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... metals . To prevent fuch abuses , to facilitate exchanges , and thereby to en- courage all forts of industry and commerce , it has been found necessary , in all countries that have made any confiderable advances towards improvement , to ...
... metals . To prevent fuch abuses , to facilitate exchanges , and thereby to en- courage all forts of industry and commerce , it has been found necessary , in all countries that have made any confiderable advances towards improvement , to ...
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... metals , seem in many cafes to have been intended to afcertain , what it was both most difficult and most important to afcer- tain , the goodness or fineness of the metal , and to have resembled the sterling mark which is at present ...
... metals , seem in many cafes to have been intended to afcertain , what it was both most difficult and most important to afcer- tain , the goodness or fineness of the metal , and to have resembled the sterling mark which is at present ...
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Página 46 - The real price of every thing, what every thing really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. What every thing is really worth to the man who has acquired it, and who wants to dispose of it or exchange it for something else, is the toil and trouble which it can save to himself, and which it can impose upon other people.
Página 23 - But man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only. He will be more likely to prevail if he can interest their self-love in his favour, and show them that it is for their own advantage to do for him what he requires of them.
Página 188 - The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of a poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his hands; and to hinder him from employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper without injury to his neighbour, is a plain violation of this most sacred property.
Página 44 - The things which have the greatest value in use have frequently little or no value in exchange; and on the contrary, those which have the greatest value in exchange have frequently little or no value in use. Nothing is more useful than water: but it will purchase scarce anything; scarce anything can be had in exchange for it.
Página 8 - But if they had all wrought separately and independently, and without any of them having been educated to this peculiar business, they certainly could not each of them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day...
Página 160 - We trust our health to the physician ; our fortune, and sometimes our life and reputation, to the lawyer and attorney. Such confidence could not safely be reposed in people of a very mean or low condition. Their reward must be such, therefore, as may give them that rank in the society which so important a trust requires.
Página 7 - ... those employed in every different branch of the work can often be collected into the same workhouse and placed at once under the view of the spectator. In those great manufactures...
Página 19 - The shepherd, the sorter of the wool, the woolcomber or carder, the dyer, the scribbler, the spinner, the weaver, the fuller, the dresser, with many others, must all join their different arts in order to complete even this homely production.
Página 18 - In the progress of society, philosophy or speculation becomes, like every other employment, the principal or sole trade and occupation of a particular class of citizens. Like every other employment too, it is subdivided into a great number of different branches, each of which affords occupation to a peculiar tribe or class of philosophers; and this subdivision of employment in philosophy, as well as in every other business, improves dexterity, and saves time.
Página 16 - The habit of sauntering and of indolent careless application, which is naturally or rather necessarily acquired by every country workman who is obliged to change his work and his tools every half hour, and to apply his hand in twenty different ways almost every day of his life, renders him almost always slothful and lazy, and incapable of any vigorous application even on the most pressing occasions.