An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volumen1J. Maynard, 1811 |
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... town of Kirkaldy on the 5th of June 1723. His father , at an early period of life , practised as a writer to the signet in Edinburgh , and officiated as private secretary to the Earl of Loudon , during the time his Lordship was ...
... town of Kirkaldy on the 5th of June 1723. His father , at an early period of life , practised as a writer to the signet in Edinburgh , and officiated as private secretary to the Earl of Loudon , during the time his Lordship was ...
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... town , I must tell you — A plague of interruptions ! I or- dered myself to be denied ; and yet here is one that has broke in upon me again . He is a man of letters , and we have had a good deal of literary conversation . You told me ...
... town , I must tell you — A plague of interruptions ! I or- dered myself to be denied ; and yet here is one that has broke in upon me again . He is a man of letters , and we have had a good deal of literary conversation . You told me ...
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... Towns- end passes for being a little uncertain in his resolutions ; so , perhaps , you need not build much on this sally . In recompence for so many mortifying things , which nothing but truth could have extorted from me , and which I ...
... Towns- end passes for being a little uncertain in his resolutions ; so , perhaps , you need not build much on this sally . In recompence for so many mortifying things , which nothing but truth could have extorted from me , and which I ...
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... town as the proper scene for a man of letters , made many attempts to prevail on him to leave his retirement . 6 At length , in the beginning of the year 1776 , Mr Smith accounted to the world for his long retreat , by the publication ...
... town as the proper scene for a man of letters , made many attempts to prevail on him to leave his retirement . 6 At length , in the beginning of the year 1776 , Mr Smith accounted to the world for his long retreat , by the publication ...
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... towns . Scarce any nation has dealt equally and impartially with every sort of industry . Since the downfal of the Roman empire , the policy of Europe has been more favourable to arts , manufactures , and commerce , the industry of towns ...
... towns . Scarce any nation has dealt equally and impartially with every sort of industry . Since the downfal of the Roman empire , the policy of Europe has been more favourable to arts , manufactures , and commerce , the industry of towns ...
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Página 7 - 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 19 - It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their selflove, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.
Página 7 - ... which, in some manufactories, are all performed by distinct hands, though in others the same man will sometimes perform two or three of them.
Página 106 - It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe, and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged.
Página 6 - ... could scarce, perhaps, with his utmost industry, make one pin in a day, and certainly could not make twenty. But in the way in which this business is now carried on, not only the whole work is a peculiar trade, but it is divided into a number of branches, of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades.
Página 15 - 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 66 - As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
Página 94 - But though North America is not yet so rich as England, it is much more thriving, and advancing with much greater rapidity to the further acquisition of riches. The most decisive mark of the prosperity of any country is the increase of the number of its inhabitants.
Página 134 - If in the same neighbourhood, there was any employment evidently either more or less advantageous than the rest, so many people would crowd into it in the one case, and so many would desert it in the other, that its advantages would soon return to the level of other employments.
Página 18 - Whether this propensity be one of those original principles in human nature, of which no further account can be given; or whether, as seems more probable, it be the necessary consequence of the faculties of reason and speech, it belongs not to our present subject to enquire.