Life of Adam SmithW. Scott, 1887 - 161 páginas |
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... means conciliatory . Not unjustifiably conjecturing that there was consider- able sympathy on the part of Smith with the peculiar tenets of his dead friend , the bishop writes after the frank fashion of those days : - " You have been ...
... means conciliatory . Not unjustifiably conjecturing that there was consider- able sympathy on the part of Smith with the peculiar tenets of his dead friend , the bishop writes after the frank fashion of those days : - " You have been ...
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... mean for those who hold that all knowledge has its origin in sense perception ? His answer was that Locke's ' substance ' was a meaningless attempt at an abstract , and therefore impossible , idea . There could be but one true ...
... mean for those who hold that all knowledge has its origin in sense perception ? His answer was that Locke's ' substance ' was a meaningless attempt at an abstract , and therefore impossible , idea . There could be but one true ...
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... means to an end . It is wonderful that the " Theory of Moral Sentiments " has not become more popular as general reading . In a literary reference it is a far greater book than it ever can be in the con- templation of the mere student ...
... means to an end . It is wonderful that the " Theory of Moral Sentiments " has not become more popular as general reading . In a literary reference it is a far greater book than it ever can be in the con- templation of the mere student ...
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... than one movement . But he lays stress on the qualification of the analogy by the circumstance that , in the case of languages , the simpli- fications , instead of rendering the means more perfect for ADAM SMITH . 71.
... than one movement . But he lays stress on the qualification of the analogy by the circumstance that , in the case of languages , the simpli- fications , instead of rendering the means more perfect for ADAM SMITH . 71.
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Richard Burdon Haldane Haldane (Viscount). fications , instead of rendering the means more perfect for the fulfilment of its end , really renders it less perfect . The essay on the " Principles which lead and direct Philosophical ...
Richard Burdon Haldane Haldane (Viscount). fications , instead of rendering the means more perfect for the fulfilment of its end , really renders it less perfect . The essay on the " Principles which lead and direct Philosophical ...
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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.