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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... carried on between the inhabitants of the town and those of the country . The town , in which there is no reproduction of substances , gains its whole wealth from the country ; but the country is no loser , the gains are reciprocal ...
... carried on between the inhabitants of the town and those of the country . The town , in which there is no reproduction of substances , gains its whole wealth from the country ; but the country is no loser , the gains are reciprocal ...
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... carry out this scheme they would often give much more than the value of the land for small freeholds lying within the parish . landlord , which subjected them to many vexations , and 8 BOOK III . DISCOURAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURE .
... carry out this scheme they would often give much more than the value of the land for small freeholds lying within the parish . landlord , which subjected them to many vexations , and 8 BOOK III . DISCOURAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURE .
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... carried on . And when the taste became general , the merchants , in order to save the expense of carriage , naturally endeavoured to establish some manu- factures of the same kind in their own country . No large country can subsist ...
... carried on . And when the taste became general , the merchants , in order to save the expense of carriage , naturally endeavoured to establish some manu- factures of the same kind in their own country . No large country can subsist ...
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... carried , however , conviction to the persons to whom they were addressed , and who knew nothing about the matter : and the pro- hibition of exporting gold and silver was , in France and England , confined to the coin of those ...
... carried , however , conviction to the persons to whom they were addressed , and who knew nothing about the matter : and the pro- hibition of exporting gold and silver was , in France and England , confined to the coin of those ...
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... carry on foreign wars . Fleets and armies are maintained with consumable goods . A nation may purchase the pay and ... carrying on a war , since little can be spared from the first , and the second and third are almost always small in ...
... carry on foreign wars . Fleets and armies are maintained with consumable goods . A nation may purchase the pay and ... carrying on a war , since little can be spared from the first , and the second and third are almost always small in ...
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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