The Works of Adam Smith: The nature and causes of the wealth of nationsT. Cadell, 1812 |
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... fuch manufactures , muft frequently have been fhewn very pretty machines , which were the inven- tions of fuch workmen , in order to facilitate and quicken their own particular part of the work . In the first fire - engines , a boy was ...
... fuch manufactures , muft frequently have been fhewn very pretty machines , which were the inven- tions of fuch workmen , in order to facilitate and quicken their own particular part of the work . In the first fire - engines , a boy was ...
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... fuch extenfive utility ; the propen- fity to truck , barter , and exchange one thing for another . Whether this propenfity be one of those ori- ginal principles in human nature , of which no further account can be given ; or whether ...
... fuch extenfive utility ; the propen- fity to truck , barter , and exchange one thing for another . Whether this propenfity be one of those ori- ginal principles in human nature , of which no further account can be given ; or whether ...
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... fuch part of the produce of other men's la- bour as he has occafion for . There are fome forts of induftry , even of the lowest kind , which can be carried on no where but in a great town . A porter , for example , can find employment ...
... fuch part of the produce of other men's la- bour as he has occafion for . There are fome forts of induftry , even of the lowest kind , which can be carried on no where but in a great town . A porter , for example , can find employment ...
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... fuch a trade as even that of a nailer in the remote and inland parts of the Highlands of Scotland . Such a workman at the rate of a thousand nails a day , and three hundred working days in the year , will make three hundred thousand ...
... fuch a trade as even that of a nailer in the remote and inland parts of the Highlands of Scotland . Such a workman at the rate of a thousand nails a day , and three hundred working days in the year , will make three hundred thousand ...
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... , but by land carriage , as no goods could be transported from the one to the other , except fuch whofe price was very confi . derable III . derable in proportion to their weight , they 28 THE DIVISION OF LABOUR LIMITED.
... , but by land carriage , as no goods could be transported from the one to the other , except fuch whofe price was very confi . derable III . derable in proportion to their weight , they 28 THE DIVISION OF LABOUR LIMITED.
Términos y frases comunes
afford almoſt annual becauſe BOOK cafe cattle circumſtances coft coin commodities commonly confequence confiderable confifts cultivation demand diminiſh dities employed employment England Engliſh equal eſtabliſhed Europe expence faid fame manner feems feldom fervants feven fhillings fhould filk firft firſt fmall fociety fome fometimes fomewhat foon ftandard ftate ftill ftock fubfiftence fuch fufficient fuperior fupply fuppofed gold and filver greater quantity greateſt himſelf improvement increaſe induſtry intereft itſelf land landlord laſt leaſt lefs mafter manufactures meaſure metals moft money price moſt muft muſt natural natural price neceffarily neceffary obferved occafion otherwife ounce pariſh perfon Peru pound weight pounds prefent price of corn profit proportion purchaſe purpoſe quantity of filver quantity of labour raiſe real price reaſonable rent rife Scotland ſmall ſmaller ſtate ſtill ſtock thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand tivated trade ufual uſe value of filver wages of labour wheat whole workmen
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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.