Life of Adam SmithW. Scott, 1887 - 161 páginas |
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... called the Imitative Arts " ; Essay on the external senses ; " English and Italian verses " ; Smith apparently contemplated a great work on the theories of ethics , and of jurisprudence 56 CHAPTER IV . Pitt cites Smith in House of ...
... called the Imitative Arts " ; Essay on the external senses ; " English and Italian verses " ; Smith apparently contemplated a great work on the theories of ethics , and of jurisprudence 56 CHAPTER IV . Pitt cites Smith in House of ...
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... out . " Voltaire has lately published a small work called ' Candide ; ou , L'Optimisme . ' I shall give you a detail of it . But what is all this to my book ? say you . My dear Mr. Smith , have patience : compose yourself to ADAM SMITH .
... out . " Voltaire has lately published a small work called ' Candide ; ou , L'Optimisme . ' I shall give you a detail of it . But what is all this to my book ? say you . My dear Mr. Smith , have patience : compose yourself to ADAM SMITH .
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... called yesterday at Millar's shop in order to buy copies , and to ask questions about the author . The Bishop of Peterborough said he had passed the evening in a company where he heard it extolled above all books in the world . The Duke ...
... called yesterday at Millar's shop in order to buy copies , and to ask questions about the author . The Bishop of Peterborough said he had passed the evening in a company where he heard it extolled above all books in the world . The Duke ...
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... called on him twice , with a view of talking with him about the matter , and convincing him of the pro- priety of sending that young nobleman to Glasgow ; for I could not hope that he could offer you any terms which would tempt you to ...
... called on him twice , with a view of talking with him about the matter , and convincing him of the pro- priety of sending that young nobleman to Glasgow ; for I could not hope that he could offer you any terms which would tempt you to ...
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... called ' My own Life , " which I composed a few days before I left Edinburgh , when I thought , as did all my friends , that my life was despaired of . There can be no objection that the small piece should be sent to Messrs . Strahan ...
... called ' My own Life , " which I composed a few days before I left Edinburgh , when I thought , as did all my friends , that my life was despaired of . There can be no objection that the small piece should be sent to Messrs . Strahan ...
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Abbé Morellet abstract Adam Smith agreeable agriculture appears balance of trade became become Britain capital cause character Charon colonies commerce commodity David Hume death doctrine Dugald Stewart Duke of Buccleuch duty Edinburgh edition effect empire employment England essay exchange expense exportation facts foreign free-trade Glasgow gold and silver greater Hume's illustrated imagination individual industry interest Joseph Skipsey kind Kirkcaldy land less letter London manufactures mercantile system metaphysical 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 References to A. S. regulated rent revenue Ricardo Scotland society sympathy talents tendencies Theory of Moral things tion trade treatise wages of labour Wealth of Nations William Sharp writing
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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 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 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 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 149 - If any of the provinces of the British empire cannot be made to contribute towards the support of the whole empire, it is surely time that Great Britain should free herself from the expence of defending those provinces in time of war.
Página 111 - England is certainly, in the present times, a much richer country than any part of North America. The wages of labour, however, are much higher in North America than in any part of England.
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...
Página 100 - The difference of natural talents in different men is in reality much less than we are aware of, and the very different genius which appears to distinguish men of different professions when grown up to maturity, is not, upon many occasions, so much the cause as the effect of the division of labour.