Life of Adam SmithW. Scott, 1887 - 161 páginas |
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... deal in Edinburgh at this time . He was a prominent member of the famous Poker Club , which had its origin in an association formed in Edinburgh for the purpose of protesting and agitating against the indisposition of the Government to ...
... deal in Edinburgh at this time . He was a prominent member of the famous Poker Club , which had its origin in an association formed in Edinburgh for the purpose of protesting and agitating against the indisposition of the Government to ...
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... deal of literary conversation . You told me that you was curious of literary anecdotes , and therefore I shall inform you of a few that have come to my knowledge . I believe that I have mentioned to you already Helvetius's book ' De l ...
... deal of literary conversation . You told me that you was curious of literary anecdotes , and therefore I shall inform you of a few that have come to my knowledge . I believe that I have mentioned to you already Helvetius's book ' De l ...
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... deal of prolonged suffering , terminated fatally in July of that year . He thus died at the comparatively early age of sixty - seven . On the southern slope of the Calton Hill , opening off the London Road , there is a small and quiet ...
... deal of prolonged suffering , terminated fatally in July of that year . He thus died at the comparatively early age of sixty - seven . On the southern slope of the Calton Hill , opening off the London Road , there is a small and quiet ...
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... deal with this subject there are some fine specimens of analysis . That which discusses the effect upon individuals of a weaker calibre of the manifestations of a coarse , strong nature , is especially worth remembering . " The hoarse ...
... deal with this subject there are some fine specimens of analysis . That which discusses the effect upon individuals of a weaker calibre of the manifestations of a coarse , strong nature , is especially worth remembering . " The hoarse ...
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... deal with it . The remaining great topic of the " Theory of Moral Sentiments " is the character of virtue . The man who acts according to the rules of perfect prudence , of strict justice , and of proper benevolence , may be said to be ...
... deal with it . The remaining great topic of the " Theory of Moral Sentiments " is the character of virtue . The man who acts according to the rules of perfect prudence , of strict justice , and of proper benevolence , may be said to be ...
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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.