Life of Adam SmithW. Scott, 1887 - 161 páginas |
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... interest his hearers . Each discourse consisted commonly of several distinct propositions , which he successively endeavoured to prove and illustrate . These propositions , when announced in general terms , had , from their extent , not ...
... interest his hearers . Each discourse consisted commonly of several distinct propositions , which he successively endeavoured to prove and illustrate . These propositions , when announced in general terms , had , from their extent , not ...
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... interest in his work in the course of its creation , and it is recorded that from the day of its pub- lication his attention became increasingly concentrated . upon economical subjects . In the course of the four years during which he ...
... interest in his work in the course of its creation , and it is recorded that from the day of its pub- lication his attention became increasingly concentrated . upon economical subjects . In the course of the four years during which he ...
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... interests , whatever these might amount to , in the way he did , for the sake of his friend . That he did hesitate , Hume's letters to him show- " LONDON , May 3 , 1776 . " MY DEAR FRIEND , -I send you enclosed an ostensible letter ...
... interests , whatever these might amount to , in the way he did , for the sake of his friend . That he did hesitate , Hume's letters to him show- " LONDON , May 3 , 1776 . " MY DEAR FRIEND , -I send you enclosed an ostensible letter ...
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... interests of Hume's own memory , as of his own reputation , and this is the best excuse that can be made for him . At all events , Hume determined to revoke , and did revoke , the direction by a codicil to his will , and entrusted the ...
... interests of Hume's own memory , as of his own reputation , and this is the best excuse that can be made for him . At all events , Hume determined to revoke , and did revoke , the direction by a codicil to his will , and entrusted the ...
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... interest that it is worth quoting at length . It is a description which refutes completely the nursery tales upon the subject which were set abroad at the time , and for long passed current . Fortunately we live in a generation which ...
... interest that it is worth quoting at length . It is a description which refutes completely the nursery tales upon the subject which were set abroad at the time , and for long passed current . Fortunately we live in a generation which ...
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Abbé Morellet abstract Adam Smith agreeable agriculture appears balance of trade became become Bishop of Norwich Britain capital cause character Charon colonies commerce commodity David Hume death division of labour doctrine Dugald Stewart Duke of Buccleuch duty Edinburgh edition effect empire employed employment England essay exchange expense exportation facts foreign free-trade Glasgow gold and silver Government greater Hume's imagination increase individual industry interest kind Kirkcaldy land less letter London manufactures ment mercantile system method mind Moral Sentiments nation of shopkeepers natural price nature never occasion opinion origin particular person philosopher political economy principles produce profit proportion proposition purchase quantity Quesnay regulated rent revenue Scotland society sympathy talents tendencies Theory of Moral things tion trade treatise wages of labour Wealth of Nations writing
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Página 109 - The market price of every particular commodity is regulated by the proportion between the quantity which is actually brought to market, and the demand of those who are willing to pay the natural price of the commodity...
Página 65 - How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.
Página 108 - 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 47 - Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.
Página 143 - Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as Little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state.
Página 111 - It is not the actual greatness of national wealth, but its continual increase, which occasions a rise in the wages of labour. It is not, accordingly, in the richest countries, but in the most thriving, or in those which are growing rich the fastest, that the wages of labour are highest.
Página 103 - The word VALUE, it is to be observed, has two different meanings, and sometimes expresses the utility of some particular object, and sometimes the power of purchasing other goods which the possession of that object conveys. The one may be called "value in use;" the other "value in exchange.
Página 117 - The probability that any particular person shall ever be qualified for the employment to which he is educated, is very different in different occupations. In the greater part of mechanic trades success is almost certain, but very uncertain in the liberal professions. Put your son apprentice to a shoemaker, there is little doubt of his learning to make a pair of shoes : but send him to study the law, it is at least twenty to one if ever he makes such a proficiency as will enable him to live by the...
Página 106 - As soon as stock has accumulated in the hands of particular persons, some of them will naturally employ it in setting to work industrious people, whom they will supply with materials and subsistence, in order to make a profit by the sale of their work, or by what their labour adds to the value of the materials.
Página 120 - By the 5th of Elizabeth, commonly called the Statute of Apprenticeship, it was enacted, that no person should for the future exercise any trade, craft, or mystery at that time exercised in England, unless he had previously served to it an apprenticeship of seven years at least...