An analysis of Adam Smiths' Inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations, repr., with additions, from the 3rd ed. of J. Joyce's abridgement, revised and ed. by W.P. Emerton, Volume 21880 |
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... France , vol . i . ) For another view , much disfigured by anti - German prejudice , see Cou- lange's Histoire des Institutions Politiques de l'Ancienne France . ་ Neither of these practices seems to have been in vogue before the tenth ...
... France , vol . i . ) For another view , much disfigured by anti - German prejudice , see Cou- lange's Histoire des Institutions Politiques de l'Ancienne France . ་ Neither of these practices seems to have been in vogue before the tenth ...
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... France may serve as an example of ancient tallages . It is a tax upon the sup- posed profits of the farmer , which they estimate by the stock that he has upon the farm . This tax hinders the accumulation of stock , and is besides looked ...
... France may serve as an example of ancient tallages . It is a tax upon the sup- posed profits of the farmer , which they estimate by the stock that he has upon the farm . This tax hinders the accumulation of stock , and is besides looked ...
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... iv . , and Hist . de la Civilisation en France , ii . 5 . taken away from them , they became really free in 10 BOOK III . 10 RISE OF CITIES AND TOWNS CHAPTER III Of the rise and progress of Cities and Towns, after the fall the Roman Empire.
... iv . , and Hist . de la Civilisation en France , ii . 5 . taken away from them , they became really free in 10 BOOK III . 10 RISE OF CITIES AND TOWNS CHAPTER III Of the rise and progress of Cities and Towns, after the fall the Roman Empire.
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... France con- sulted his bishops concerning the most proper way of restraining the violence of his lords , who advised : ( 1 ) To establish magistrates and a town - council in every considerable town of his demesnes : ( 2 ) To form a new ...
... France con- sulted his bishops concerning the most proper way of restraining the violence of his lords , who advised : ( 1 ) To establish magistrates and a town - council in every considerable town of his demesnes : ( 2 ) To form a new ...
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... France and England the authority of the sovereign was never entirely destroyed . Though the cities could not attain to independence , yet the sovereign could not impose any tax upon them without their consent . They therefore sent ...
... France and England the authority of the sovereign was never entirely destroyed . Though the cities could not attain to independence , yet the sovereign could not impose any tax upon them without their consent . They therefore sent ...
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Adam Smith advantage ÆNEID agriculture America ancient artificers balance of trade bank money Bonamy Price bounty Britain capital cent Church civilised clergy coin College colony trade commerce commodities consumer consumption corn Crown 8vo cultivation debt defrayed duties East India empire employed employment England English equal established Europe expense exportation factures favour foreign trade former France fund gold and silver greater Hertford College importation imposed improvement increase industry interest JAMES THORNTON labour land-tax landlord levied Lord Lord Clive maintain manu manufactures ment mercantile merchants monopoly natural necessary occasion Oxford paid Political Economy Portugal profit prohibition proportion proprietors quantity QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES raise regulated render rent of land restraints revenue Rogers's note Roman ROMAN LAW rude produce seignorage society sovereign Spain Specimen standing army subsistence tenant THOMAS CLAYTON tion Translation Wealth of Nations whole