 | Leon Carroll Marshall, Leverett Samuel Lyon - 1921 - 524 páginas
...accommodation of an European prince does not always so much exceed that of an industrious and frugal peasant as the accommodation of the latter exceeds that of many...lives and liberties of ten thousand naked savages." Even this description does not include all of the specialists who take part in the great cooperation.... | |
 | Thames Williamson - 1923 - 568 páginas
...of an European prince does not always so much exceed that of an industrious and frugal peasant, as the accommodation of the latter exceeds that of many...lives and liberties of ten thousand naked savages. 47. The impersonality of modern life1 From the preceding selection it must be apparent that as the... | |
 | Robert Burns Morgan - 1923 - 696 páginas
...of an European prince does not always so much exceed that of an industrious and frugal peasant, as the accommodation of the latter exceeds that of many...lives and liberties of ten thousand naked savages. 24. THE STATE OF THE POOR [1795] SOTOCH : Sir F. Eden, State of the Poor, 1797. East Riding of Yorkshire.... | |
 | 1926 - 534 páginas
...accommodation of the most common artificer or day-laborer in a civilized and thriving country" vastly exceeds "that of many an African king, the absolute...lives and liberties of ten thousand naked savages." The material conditions of a healthy and happy life have been wonderfully extended, and greater numbers... | |
 | Lionel Danforth Edie - 1926 - 832 páginas
...Adam Smith could write that the accommodations of "a frugal and industrious peasant exceed that of an African king, the absolute master of the lives and liberties of ten thousand naked savages." This observation was passed before the advent of the age of steam and electricity. Since that time,... | |
 | Leverett Samuel Lyon, A. Marie Butler - 1927 - 628 páginas
...accommodation of an European prince does not always so much exceed that of an industrious and frugal peasant as the accommodation of the latter exceeds that of many...master of the lives and liberties of ten thousand named savages. the factories that I visit have conditions much better than the law requires. The owners... | |
 | Edwin Cannan - 1927 - 468 páginas
...contrasts the situation of the humblest member of a civilized and thriving nation very favourably with that of many an African king, the absolute master...lives and liberties of ten thousand naked savages, he was in fact taking things as they were in his time. That he failed to see that self-interest had... | |
 | William Stafford - 1987 - 320 páginas
...accommodation of a European prince does not always so much exceed that of an industrious and frugal peasant as the accommodation of the latter exceeds that of many...lives and liberties of ten thousand naked savages. (I, 11) If Smith is, from a modern standpoint, a moralist and historian as well as an economist, Ricardo's... | |
 | Peter Gilmour - 1990 - 206 páginas
...even higher. The presence of this universal opulence means that the accommodation of even the lowest 'exceeds that of many an African king, the absolute master of the lives and liberties of 10000 naked savages' (WN, 24). 4 It is true that the abodes of the lowest rank in commercial society... | |
 | David Spadafora, James Spada - 1990 - 488 páginas
...in Brittain [sic] has more luxury in his way of living than an [American] Indian sovereign" or than "an African king, the absolute master of the lives and liberties of ten thousand naked savages."35 The Scots thought that the division of labor produced more than purely economic benefits,... | |
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Compared, indeed, with the more extravagant luxury of the great, his accommodation must no doubt appear extremely simple and easy; and yet it may be true, perhaps, that the accommodation of an European prince does not always so much exceed that of an... 
