| Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 496 páginas
...to contain the value of an equal quantity. Labour was the first price ; the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or...wealth of the world was originally purchased ; and its value to those who possess it, and who want to exchange it for some new productions, is precisely... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 490 páginas
...to contain the value of an equal quantity. Labour was the first price ; the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or...wealth of the world was originally purchased ; and its value to those who possess it, and who want to exchange it for some new productions, is precisely... | |
| 1856 - 770 páginas
...of a commonwealth. " Labour," says Adam Smith, " vras tho first price, tho original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or...wealth of the world was originally purchased." And, as that clearsighted writer adds, " the property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the... | |
| Charles Baker - 1857 - 438 páginas
...subservient to the wants and comforts of man. LABOUR, IT3 BIGHTS AND ITS BESUI/TS. Jabmir — " Labour was the first price, the original purchase money that...the wealth of the world was originally purchased. * * The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other... | |
| Causes - 1857 - 80 páginas
...to contain the value of a certain quantity. Labour was the first price, the original purchasemoney that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or...wealth of the world was originally purchased, and its value, to those who possess it and who want to exchange it for some new productions, is precisely... | |
| William Atkinson - 1858 - 698 páginas
...Labour, therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities." * Again : " Labour was the first price, the original purchase money that...but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was * The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith, book 1, ch. v. originally purchased ; and its value, to those... | |
| 1859 - 802 páginas
...religious institutions. ' Labour,' says Dr. Adam Smith, ' was the first price, the original purchase-money, that was paid for all things. It was not by gold,...the wealth of the world was originally purchased.' \Ve have no hesitation, therefore, in affirming that England owes her prosperity to the industry of... | |
| 1876 - 846 páginas
...we would gladly see it go on to perfection and have Plato's dream realized on the earth. * " Labor was the first price — the original purchase money that was paid for all things." Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, Book 1, chap. v. London. 1820. In the early stages of society, the... | |
| Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1861 - 904 páginas
...of mach use, and is never of any value. ** Labour was the firtt price, the origioal purchase-money, that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, bat by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased." — (Adam Smith.) The progress... | |
| 1869 - 1274 páginas
...what we acquire with the toil of our own body. Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that aU the wealth of the world was originally purchased, and its value is precisely equal to the quantity... | |
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