| Henry Allon - 1858 - 576 páginas
...in the English system — ' the wish to ' augment our fortunes, and rise in the world, a wish that comes ' with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the 'grave.' This maxim, expressed alike by Dr. Smith and Mr. M'Culloch, is perfectly applicable to the condition... | |
| Adam Smith - 1869 - 576 páginas
...principle which prompts to save, is the desire of bettering our condition,~"a~desire~\vhich,~though generally calm and dispassionate, comes with us from...those two moments, there is scarce perhaps a single instant in which any man is so perfectly and completely satisfied with his situation, as to be without... | |
| John Ramsay M'Culloch - 1870 - 376 páginas
...only source of wealth, and that the wish to augment our fortunes and to rise in the world-,a wish that comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave—is the cause of wealth being saved and accumulated : he has shown that labour is productive... | |
| Adam Smith - 1880 - 486 páginas
...in general only momentary and occasional. But the principle which prompts to save, is the desire of bettering our condition, a desire which, though generally...into the grave. In the whole interval which separates these two moments, there is scarce perhaps a single instant in which any man is so perfectly and completely... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1880 - 182 páginas
...greater. . . . But the principle which prompts to save, is the desire of bettering our conditionr; a desire which, though generally calm and dispassionate,...womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave.' As long as the wealth of a country was supposed to consist of its gold, 160842 the sole object of trade... | |
| James Platt - 1882 - 234 páginas
...Capital," this principle of accumulation is for the benefit of others as well as ourselves ; so it comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till...interval which separates those two moments there is scarcely, perhaps, a single instance in which any man is so perfectly satisfied with his situation... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 páginas
...desire of bettering our condition; a desire which, though generally calm and dispassionate, conies with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave.' As long as the wealth of a country was supposed to consist of its gold, the sole object of trade was... | |
| James Platt - 1883 - 538 páginas
..." Capital," this principle of accumulation is for the benefit of others as well as ourselves; so it comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till...interval which separates those two moments there is scarcely, perhaps, a single instance in which any man is so perfectly satisfied with the situation... | |
| Adam Smith - 1884 - 604 páginas
...in general only momentan* and occasional. But the principle which prompts to save is the desire of bettering our condition, a desire which, though generally...interval which separates those two moments there is scarcely perhaps a single instant in which any man is so perfectly and completely satisfied with his... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1134 páginas
...capital would never be the greater. . . . But the principle which prompts to save, is the desire of lfred Hix Welsh leave* us till we go into the grave.1 As long as the wealth of a country was supposed to consist of... | |
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