| Thomas Ruggles - 1794 - 352 páginas
...underftands not only the commodities which are indifpenfably neceflary for the fupport of life ; I 2 but but whatever the cuftom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people to be without ; and explains himfelf, by admitting, that a linen fhirt and leather fhoes are among... | |
| Adam Smith - 1801 - 448 páginas
...... -.. .,. By neceffaries I underftand, not only the commodities which are indifpenfibly neceflary for the fupport of life, but whatever the cuftom of...people, even of the loweft order, to be without. A linen fliirt, for example, is, ftriclly fpeaking, »ot a neceflary of life. The Greeks and Romans lived »... | |
| 1820 - 590 páginas
...economy; nor can a rise in the price of necessaries, that is, of 'those commodities ' which the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without, ' * be compensated by an immediate corresponding rise of wages. — The... | |
| Adam Smith - 1809 - 514 páginas
...the commo, 4jties 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. A linen shirt, for example, is strictly speaking, not a necessary of life.... | |
| John Ramsay McCulloch - 1825 - 446 páginas
...only the commodities that 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." Now it is plain, from this definition, that there neither is nor can... | |
| Samuel Read - 1829 - 444 páginas
...This of course includes the meaning no* to marry without. support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without. A linen shirt, for example, is, strictly speaking, not a necessary of... | |
| 1835 - 858 páginas
...; nor can a rise in the price of necessaries, — that is, of those commodities " which the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without," -{• — be compensated by an immediate corresponding rise of wages.... | |
| Maurice Cross - 1836 - 434 páginas
...; nor can a rise in the price of necessaries, <— that is, of those commodities " which the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without," -j—be compensated by an immediate corresponding rise of wages. The... | |
| Joseph Salway Eisdell - 1839 - 452 páginas
..."not only such things as 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." The quantity and kind of these things depend, not only on the habits... | |
| Adam Smith - 1839 - 448 páginas
...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. A linen shirt, for example, is, strictly speaking, not a necessary of... | |
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