An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsT. Nelson and sons, 1884 - 445 páginas |
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... shilling , too , seems originally to have been the denomination of a weight . When wheat is at twelve shillings ... shillings and four- is sometimes affixed to ingots of gold , and pence . The proportion , however , between which ...
... shilling , too , seems originally to have been the denomination of a weight . When wheat is at twelve shillings ... shillings and four- is sometimes affixed to ingots of gold , and pence . The proportion , however , between which ...
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... shillings , and 11e ; but on account of the variations in the pence , have contained very nearly the same value of gold and silver , the same nominal price is sometimes of very different values . When a landed estate , therefore , is ...
... shillings , and 11e ; but on account of the variations in the pence , have contained very nearly the same value of gold and silver , the same nominal price is sometimes of very different values . When a landed estate , therefore , is ...
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... shillings the quarter . But wher . corn Equal quantities of corn , therefore , will , at is at the latter price , not only the nominal , distant times , be more nearly of the same real but the real value of a corn rent , will be value ...
... shillings the quarter . But wher . corn Equal quantities of corn , therefore , will , at is at the latter price , not only the nominal , distant times , be more nearly of the same real but the real value of a corn rent , will be value ...
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... shillings , or be a legal tender part of it at least which circulated in London for a debt of that amount . In this state of and its neighbourhood , was in general less de- things , and during the continuance of any one graded below its ...
... shillings , or be a legal tender part of it at least which circulated in London for a debt of that amount . In this state of and its neighbourhood , was in general less de- things , and during the continuance of any one graded below its ...
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... shillings and proportion , exchange for more silver in coin fourpence , five shillings and fivepence , five than it would purchase in bullion . The silver shillings and sixpence , five shillings and seven- coin containing its full ...
... shillings and proportion , exchange for more silver in coin fourpence , five shillings and fivepence , five than it would purchase in bullion . The silver shillings and sixpence , five shillings and seven- coin containing its full ...
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Página 13 - I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good. It is an affectation, indeed, not very common among merchants, and very few words need be employed in dissuading them from it.
Página 15 - The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.
Página 87 - What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy it of them with some part of the produce of our own industry, employed in a way in which we have some advantage.
Página 87 - Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society, which he has in view. But the study of his own advantage naturally, or rather necessarily leads him to prefer that employment which is most advantageous to the society.
Página 297 - The expense of government to the individuals of a great nation is like the expense of management to the joint tenants of a great estate, who are all obliged to contribute in proportion to their respective interests in the estate. In the observation or neglect of this maxim consists what is called the equality or inequality of taxation.
Página 297 - The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person.
Página 203 - To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers ; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers.
Página 3 - That in the university of Oxford, the greater part of the public professors have for these many years given up altogether even the pretence of teaching.
Página 3 - Many improvements have been made by the ingenuity of the makers of the machines, when to make them became the business of a peculiar trade ; and some by that of those who are called philosophers or men of speculation, whose trade it is not to do anything, but to observe everything ; and who, upon that account, are often capable of combining together the powers of the most distant and dissimilar objects.
Página 8 - ... without the assistance and co-operation of many thousands, the very meanest person in a civilized country could not be provided, even according to what we very falsely imagine, the easy and simple manner in which he is commonly accommodated.