An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volumen3J. Maynard, 1811 |
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... SOVEREIGN OR COMMON- WEALTH . CHAP . I. Of the Expenses of the Sovereign or Commonwealth PART I. Of the Expense of Defence - PART II . Of the Expense of Justice M317603 ib . 94 PART III . Of the Expense of Public Works and HB161.
... SOVEREIGN OR COMMON- WEALTH . CHAP . I. Of the Expenses of the Sovereign or Commonwealth PART I. Of the Expense of Defence - PART II . Of the Expense of Justice M317603 ib . 94 PART III . Of the Expense of Public Works and HB161.
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... Sovereign - Conclusion of the Chapter CHAP . II . Of the Sources of the general or public Revenue of the 244 245 Society 247 PART I. Of the Funds or Sources of Revenue which may particularly belong to the Sovereign or Commonwealth 248 ...
... Sovereign - Conclusion of the Chapter CHAP . II . Of the Sources of the general or public Revenue of the 244 245 Society 247 PART I. Of the Funds or Sources of Revenue which may particularly belong to the Sovereign or Commonwealth 248 ...
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... sovereign or common- wealth . A tax of five , or even of ten shillings , upon the exportation of every tod of wool , would pro- duce a very considerable revenue to the sovereign . It would hurt the interest of the growers somewhat less ...
... sovereign or common- wealth . A tax of five , or even of ten shillings , upon the exportation of every tod of wool , would pro- duce a very considerable revenue to the sovereign . It would hurt the interest of the growers somewhat less ...
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... sovereign , and at the same time occasion so little inconveniency to any body . The prohibition , notwithstanding all the penalties which guard it , does not prevent the exportation of wool . It is exported , it is well known , in great ...
... sovereign , and at the same time occasion so little inconveniency to any body . The prohibition , notwithstanding all the penalties which guard it , does not prevent the exportation of wool . It is exported , it is well known , in great ...
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... sovereign is completely discharged from a duty , in the attempting to perform which he must always be exposed to innumerable delusions , and for the proper performance of which , no human wisdom or knowledge could ever be sufficient ...
... sovereign is completely discharged from a duty , in the attempting to perform which he must always be exposed to innumerable delusions , and for the proper performance of which , no human wisdom or knowledge could ever be sufficient ...
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Página 28 - Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production ; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
Página 67 - ... the duty of protecting the society from the violence and invasion of other independent societies; secondly, the duty of protecting, as far as possible, every member of the society from the injustice or oppression of every other member of it...
Página 329 - By necessaries I understand not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without.
Página 67 - ... the duty of erecting and maintaining certain public works and certain public institutions, which it can never be for the interest of any individual, or small number of individuals, to erect and maintain; because the profit could never repay the expense to any individual or small number of individuals, though it may frequently do much more than repay it to a great society.
Página 261 - 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 67 - Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man, or order of men.
Página 141 - The directors of such companies, however, being the managers rather of other people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expected, that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own. Like the stewards of a rich man, they are apt to consider attention to small matters as not for their master's honour, and very easily give themselves a dispensation from having it. Negligence and profusion, therefore,...
Página 261 - Every tax ought to be levied at the time, or in the manner in which it is most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it.
Página 193 - In the progress of the division of labour, the employment of the far greater part of those who live by labour, that is, of the great body of the people, comes to be confined to a few very simple operations ; frequently to one or two.
Página 102 - Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.