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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... greater variety and com- plexity of the facts with which the author deals ; and if any obscurity overshadow the text of my abridgment from a similar cause , my readers will often find it at once dispelled by a reference to the original ...
... greater variety and com- plexity of the facts with which the author deals ; and if any obscurity overshadow the text of my abridgment from a similar cause , my readers will often find it at once dispelled by a reference to the original ...
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... greater quantity of manufactured goods , with the produce of a smaller quantity of labour , than they must have employed had they prepared them themselves . The town affords a market for the surplus produce of the country . The greater ...
... greater quantity of manufactured goods , with the produce of a smaller quantity of labour , than they must have employed had they prepared them themselves . The town affords a market for the surplus produce of the country . The greater ...
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... greater part of the capital of every growing society is , first , directed to agriculture , then to manufactures , and last of all to foreign commerce . This natural order of things has been inverted in the modern states of Europe ...
... greater part of the capital of every growing society is , first , directed to agriculture , then to manufactures , and last of all to foreign commerce . This natural order of things has been inverted in the modern states of Europe ...
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... greater part of the lands to the principal leaders of the barbarians . ' This original engrossing of the lands introduced the laws of primogeniture and entails , which prevented them from being divided ( the former ) by succession or ...
... greater part of the lands to the principal leaders of the barbarians . ' This original engrossing of the lands introduced the laws of primogeniture and entails , which prevented them from being divided ( the former ) by succession or ...
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... greater . The statement of our author that entails were unknown to the Romans admits of much doubt . The restraint put by Justinian on the number of generations during which Substitutions and Fidei Commissa should avail , looks much ...
... greater . The statement of our author that entails were unknown to the Romans admits of much doubt . The restraint put by Justinian on the number of generations during which Substitutions and Fidei Commissa should avail , looks much ...
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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